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By Bari Weiss
08.08.24
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Talk to anyone in the media industry and they’ll quietly tell you that there’s little point in trying to build something that contains disagreement. There’s no point in reporting critically on the left and the right because readers want one thing or they want the other. A publication is either MAGA or coconut-pilled, and nary the two shall meet.

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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