{"id":2522,"date":"2026-04-24T06:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:25:22","slug":"hello-is-this-thing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/hello-is-this-thing-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello? Is this thing on?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-1024x704.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-1536x1056.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-at-5.45.27-AM-2048x1408.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">CBS is slashing 6% of its staff, shuttering a century\u2011old radio news service, and handing buyouts to correspondents because there\u2019s \u201cno money\u201d for journalism. But somehow David Ellison can magic up roughly $150 million in cash and stock to buy Bari Weiss\u2019s Substack shop and install her as editor\u2011in\u2011chief of CBS News, complete with a billionaire\u2011friendly \u201cFree Press\u201d halo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Weren\u2019t the Ellison Himbos and their goon Bari Weiss supposed to save journalism for the Middle Class with all that \u201cpost\u2011partisan\u201d cash? Instead, CBS is still limping along in third place while the people they claim to serve are staring at their godphones, waiting for something real. Funny how there\u2019s always a budget for vanity deals and apparatchiks, but not for actual reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? CBS is slashing 6% of its staff, shuttering a century\u2011old radio news service, and handing buyouts to correspondents because there\u2019s \u201cno money\u201d for journalism. But somehow David Ellison can magic up roughly $150 million in cash and stock to buy Bari Weiss\u2019s Substack shop and install her as editor\u2011in\u2011chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[196,197,138,166,231,26,534,195,42],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-bari-weiss","tag-david-ellison","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-journalism","tag-larry-ellison","tag-propaganda","tag-rick-porter","tag-tony-dokoupil","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}