WASHINGTON — The knives are out for CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.

Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.

What’s more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias.

The one-time New York Times opinion writer quit the Times in 2020 after Chairman A.G. Sulzberger forced Editorial Page Editor James Bennet to resign for running a piece that advocated using U.S. troops to squelch violent George Floyd riots. The piece was written by a U.S. senator, Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Bennet’s ouster was a low moment for a once-proud institution. The editorial page editor was doing his job, but management had gone mad, abandoning common sense and balance in an effort

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