Does Bari Weiss Prove Woke Media Is Collapsing?

Plus: the legality of Trump’s National Guard deployments, Democrat A.G. nominee’s leaked texts about shooting GOP rival, and what Argentina’s crisis means for libertarians.

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Does Bari Weiss Prove Woke Media Is Collapsing?

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This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Paramount's $150 million acquisition of The Free Press and Bari Weiss' promotion to editor in chief at CBS News. They examine whether this represents a backlash to "woke" media, and debate if the success of outlets on Substack and YouTube shows that journalism may be entering a period of entrepreneurship and renewal rather than decline.

The panel then turns to President Donald Trump's controversial National Guard deployments to cities like Portland and Chicago, weighing its constitutional limits and political consequences. They also cover the leaked texts from Virginia's Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones about shooting his Republican rival, and the fallout for Democrats in a critical election year. A listener asks the editors to reflect on whether libertarians should focus more on defending freedom as an end in itself or on steering society toward specific outcomes. Finally, the conversation touches on Argentina's economic crisis and what it means for libertarians.

 

0:00—Bari Weiss named editor in chief at CBS News

13:32—Consolidation and the changing media landscape

20:58—Federal troops deployed to Chicago and Portland

38:17—Democrat attorney general candidate fantasizes about political violence

48:07—Listener question on prioritizing process over purpose

56:37—What Argentina's bailout means for libertarianism

1:00:35—Weekly cultural recommendations

 

Mentioned in This Podcast

"The Future of the Free Press," by Bari Weiss

"Letter To All CBS News Employees," by Bari Weiss

"Domination Fantasies: Does Rupert Murdoch control the media? Does Anyone?" by Ben Compaine

"Mergers & Disquisitions: Reasons not to sweat AOL-Time Warner--and other megadeals," by Nick Gillespie

"Trump's Troops Return to a City That Moved On: Dispatch From Portland," by Nancy Rommelman

"Sending in the Guard," by Liz Wolfe

"Oregon Court Strikes Down Trump's Federalization of National Guard," by David Post

"Deploying Federal Troops Is Not a Sustainable Solution to Crime in American Cities," by Katherine Mangu-Ward

"A Judge Blocked the Trump Administration From Deploying National Guard Troops to Oregon," by Shawn Hubler, Anna Griffin, and Eric Schmitt

"Dem AG Nominee Jay Jones Fantasized About Shooting Former Virginia GOP Speaker: 'He Receives Both Bullets,'" by Audrey Fahlberg

"Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States," by Alex Nowrasteh

"The Agony of Abundance," by Nick Gillespie

"Bail Out Argentina," by David Frum

"Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?" by Paul Krugman

"Why is Argentina the IMF's biggest deadbeat?" by Steve Hanke

 

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What are we consuming this week?

Peter Suderman

• "Muscle Man", by Jordan Castro

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• "The Naturalist Society", by Carrie Vaughn

Nick Gillespie

• "Race Against Terror", by Jake Tapper

Eric Boehm

• "The Life of a Showgirl", by Taylor Swift

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Comments

[Chumby]

Woke media like Reason’s Matt Welch still get published:

https://x.com/mattwelch/status/1102654202545913857?s=12

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

If they fire Welch, maybe he can get a new job as a wedding planner.

[Bananas]

So, I am going to cut and paste my question from one of the 500 other OMB articles on this topic. Maybe one of you will answer it.

What is a President supposed to do when Federal employees and Federal buildings are being attacked and the local governments not only don't help, but actively encourage it?

[rbike]

Issue pre pardons to the armed officers and tell them to start blasting, take no prisoners????

[Bananas]

That only works if the protester is unarmed and has just climbed through a BrOKuN WiNdOH!!!111

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Pull everyone out of the buildings, shutter all federal services provided to the city, withdraw all national guard personnel, stop all federal funds to the city and the state. Close the federal highways in the state.

[Bananas]

I'd take that a step further. I'd also announce that no federal Immigration laws would be enforced in, say, LA, SF, Seattle and Portland. Then every illegal in the country would flock to those cities. That would put the virtue signaling Marxists in a bind a la Martha's Vineyard. Just give them everything they say they want.

[Chumby]

Exactly. Running in alpha 1.0 is going to create problems via professional protesters and mentally ill collectivists raging.
Let the inmates burn their asylum down.

[charliehall]

You mean like on January 6, 2021? You pardon all the attackers!

[yet another dave]

Bari Wies and her cronies are the left center leftists who are too ill informed to realize they are the where little national socialist are born. Free people aren't fooled

[AT]

Will legacy media survive?

If so, how do we kill it? It's a foregone conclusion that it absolutely needs killing.

[Use the Schwartz]

Fleas are supposed to jump off dead dogs.

[Rick James]

No, the collapse of woke media and the requirement of so many outlets to implement subscription models is the proof that woke media is collapsing.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

So the Marxist jew is the "balance?" where is the pivot point?

[Uomo Del Ghiaccio]

It does not prove that woke media is dead, but rather that it is still alive. Bari Weiss will usher in an extreme Pro-Israel position where opinions that counter the narrative that Israel can do no wrong will be shutdown. It all seems very woke to me.

Pro-Israel media gains include CBS News and TikTok. The Israeli government is difficult to defend from any casual observer that is not partisan towards either Israel, Hamas or Palestinians in Gaza. It's been nearly 3 years of what amounts to a genocide or at lease a gross overreaction to an attack that lasted a day.

Never mind that the attack was a reaction, to a reaction, to a reaction, etc.. There is plenty of blame to be passed around ten ways to Sunday and again. Neither side deserves to be trusted and neither are justified. Still, for peace to occur there needs to be a leap of faith to grant some degree of trust.

Israel positions itself as a democracy, and claims the moral high ground. Therefore, it is incumbent upon Israel to step up to the plate and offer some limited trust. A good start would be to cease bombing and attacking Gaza immediately.

I'm not holding my breath, because I don't believe that the Israeli government truly wants peace. I smell a ruse and fear that the true goal is a complete and total genocide.

To me it is interesting that Jewish people who suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany with the holocaust, would allow similar suffering against other people, yet many Jewish people justify the Israeli government committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Three years is more than enough punishment for a one day attack by any measure. Bari Weiss running CBS News is a bad sign that wokeness has only transformed and not eliminated.

[Use the Schwartz]

"gross overreaction to an attack that lasted a day."

Well, except for the part where they took hostages (as in keeping them for much longer than a day). Oh, and the part where they paraded around the victims, and then killed them days later. etc. etc. There is also evidence that some of the victims of Oct 7th were held in captivity and tortured for months before being killed. You are simply wrong.

NAP until aggressed upon - then bomb to glass.

[charliehall]

So the US should not have invaded Mexico in 1916 after Pancho Villa's mob killed ten Americans? October 7 was a hundred times worse. Israel was 100% right to demand that Hamas be eliminated. Hamas has been calling for genocide against Jews in the region for decades and only the existence of the IDF has prevented that. The allegation that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian Arabs is a vile anti-Semitic lie.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"...a gross overreaction to an attack that lasted a day."

Guessing I don't need to ask your thoughts on 9/11, or that you chant "from the river to the sea." The only question I do have is if Hamas/Hezbollah pays you by the word or by the letter to post these diatribes.

As for "gross overreactions," there are a couple of ways this could have been avoided or greatly reduced; to have not attacked and killed 1200 [mostly civilians] in the first place, or to have returned the hostages taken during the attack; Hamas chose neither, and used the Palestinian civilians [those they feign to advocate] as pawns in the Israeli response in order to claim dubious "genocide" and prosecute a war of publicity. While Israel is certainly not without its own faults over the past 75+ years [I imagine you would say their "fault" is to exist as a nation in the first place] what has transpired over the past two years is exactly what Hamas expected and instigated; this is all on them.

[charliehall]

There were humongous civilian casualties in the last months of WW2. Every one of them was on the Nazis and the Japanese genocidists. They started the wars. Uomo would have kept the Nazis and Japanese genocidists in power to this day.