{"id":2965,"date":"2026-06-03T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:23:47","slug":"bari-weiss-professional-screw-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/bari-weiss-professional-screw-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bari Weiss: Professional screw-up for sale."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article<\/a> from Showbiz411 is interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to buy a legacy outlet and destroy it, call Bari Weiss. She’ll wreck it because that’s what she does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even her own blog the Free Press is tanking. She can’t walk and do propaganda at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the big red flag was selling the Free Press to the Ellison himbos. She didn’t think her blog was sustainable and being a minion to the Right had more secure career prospects than truly being a “free press.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I wrote my book OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, <\/em>I spent an entire chapter on Roger Ailles: he was a leader who could take orders, and ratings-wise, he was adept at it. A real General Jeeves: a warrior with a broom and a feather-duster who could be both minion and big boss who delivered the goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weiss is the opposite: she can’t lead: she can come in a wreck things at the behest of her overlords, but she can’t deliver the audiences Ailes could. Not for CBS News. Not for her own blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s all you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article from Showbiz411 is interesting. If you want to buy a legacy outlet and destroy it, call Bari Weiss. She’ll wreck it because that’s what she does. Even her own blog the Free Press is tanking. She can’t walk and do propaganda at the same time. But the big red flag was selling the […]<\/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":[7,196,193,166,217,26,257,140,139],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-alexandra-kitty","tag-bari-weiss","tag-cbs","tag-journalism","tag-outfoxed-rupert-murdochs-war-on-journalism","tag-propaganda","tag-roger-ailes","tag-roger-friedman","tag-showbiz411"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}