The anti-woke backlash is coming for CBS News — in the person of Bari Weiss.

In a deal that will have seismic ramifications for the mainstream media, Paramount (CBS’s parent company) has purchased The Free Press (Weiss’s online publication) for around $150 million in cash and stock.

It’s an enormous win for Weiss, an outspoken center-right commentator who quit an editing job for the New York Times’ opinion section five years ago, and who has made criticism of the “woke left” a central theme of her work.

And the capstone is that, as part of the deal, Weiss will now be the editor-in-chief of CBS News — putting her in charge of a storied journalistic institution.

As of this writing, it isn’t clear how Weiss (and Paramount CEO David Ellison, who arranged the deal) intend to go about remaki

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