The Free Press’s Bari Weiss hosts Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a panel presented by Uber and X on Jan. 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X, and The Free Press

Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.”

Only a billionaire could look at the sclerotic state of network television news and conclude that the problem is that coverage is not sufficiently to the right.

Yet that seems to be exactly the conclusion drawn by David Ellison, the billionaire whose company Skydance just bought CBS through a purchase of its parent, Paramount. Ellison’s latest move was to acquire the conservative outlet The Free Press and make the site’s founder Bari Weiss the editor-in-chief of the massive CBS News j

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