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Bari Weiss is having her revenge on the so-called liberal media. On Monday morning, the Wall Street Journal confirmed that the Paramount-Skydance behemoth, headed by tech scion David Ellison, had acquired Weiss’ Substack-based publication the Free Press for a $150 million valuation, about 10 times the revenue the platform brought in last year . The “anti-woke” newsletter will now join the suite of brand-name properties under the merged-media umbrella, including BET and MTV, while Weiss herself will become editor in chief of CBS News—which is about to lay off 10 percent of its very worried staff .

The appointment gives Weiss, who has zero experience in broa

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