Profitably like a martyr
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If only we could all have our speech suppressed like this:
Bari Weiss is seeking a valuation of more than $200mn for The Free Press amid talks over the sale of her “anti-woke” media start-up. Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell the three-year-old business, according to several people familiar with the matter. Ellison’s Hollywood studio Skydance has agreed to buy Paramount, the owner of CBS. Provided that deal gets cleared by regulators, Ellison — the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison — wants to position The Free Press alongside CBS News, the people said. Weiss is seeking a valuation of between $200mn and $250mn for The Free Press, the people said, only three years after starting the venture. The former New York Times journalist, known for attacking liberal institutions and “cancel culture,” has built a loyal following in Maga circles since leaving the publication in acrimonious circumstances in 2020.
Cancel culture ain’t what it used to be, I guess. It’s depressing to think how much actual journalism could be produced with that money, as opposed to blogs arguing that George Floyd had it coming &c.
Speaking of the Intellectual Dark Web, I was amused to see Peter “Detachable Conceptual Penis” Boghossian, the definitely-not-a-conservative who believed that his decision to make more money for doing less work should be a national news story, joining such academic luminaries as Ben Shapiro and Rich Lowry by putting his signature on Christopher Rufo’s petition to have academic freedom abolished and replaced by Donald Trump’s personal fiat. This is almost as surprising as Bari U.’s singular lack of commitment to free discourse.