Back in September, we told you about reports that Bari Weiss & The Free Press were on the “1-yard line” of a $100-200 million deal with Paramount. A publication that spent a year questioning Gaza’s famine, with stories titled “The Gaza Famine Myth,” was about to get a corporate windfall that dwarfs every truly independent newsroom in America.

Now we see exactly what that money bought. Propaganda masquerading as journalism.

Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air an investigation into the Trump administration sending deportees to brutal prison conditions in El Salvador, CBS pulled the segment. The reason? Bari Weiss, who has spent her short career on the opinion side only, and before that was a college kid trying to get Palestinian teachers fired, pulled rank — just as CBS’ parent company was amending its bid to take over Warner Brothers and CNN, a deal that would require Trump administration approval.

Sharyn Alfonsi, the 60 Minutes correspondent who reported the story, sent an internal email making it clear: Bari Weiss spiked the story. The piece reportedly had been screened five times, cleared by CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices, and was “factually correct.”

This is what happens when billionaires buy journalism and put propagandists in charge: honest reporting gets killed to appease those in power.

We’re going to keep exposing Bari and the billionaires behind her, but we need your help to do it. The Free Press has roughly 155,000 paying subscribers and just got a nine-figure corporate windfall. Drop Site has 15,000 paying subscribers and another 20,000 individual readers who’ve made contributions. If you support journalism that refuses to be silenced or bought, then help us close that gap. For less than $0.25 a day, you can make that happen.

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The Billionaire Takeover Is Here

Larry Ellison, the largest single private donor to the IDF, bought Paramount and CBS through his son David and is now trying to buy Warner Brothers/Discovery/CNN. Trump is trying to hand him TikTok as Netanyahu calls the potential seizure one of Israel’s “greatest victories,” citing the platform’s failure to censor content critical of Israel. A former IDF soldier now oversees TikTok’s censorship policies.

Bari Weiss’s rise to CBS Editor-in-Chief? David Ellison specifically wanted her because of her ironclad support for Israel and her years spent denying genocide. When David Ellison’s bid to buy CNN looked shaky and Trump was annoyed at CBS coverage, they rebid with Larry Ellison’s family trust guaranteeing the money.

And what does Bari Weiss do? She spikes a story critical of Trump.

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What Independent Journalism Actually Looks Like

While The Free Press used Google searches to report that malnourished children had “pre-existing conditions,” we interviewed those families to expose the intent to minimize a documented famine. When establishment media ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israel because it’s politically inconvenient, we did the reporting using publicly available documents. When Bari Weiss kills stories to protect her powerful backers, we’ll report on it and keep holding her accountable.

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