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From Substack to CBS: Bari Weiss and The Free Press in Motion
I notice that Bill Rice Jr. has been studiously avoiding any reference to catastrophes in Gaza especially, as well as in the larger Middle East. The contentions extend to government, media, and higher education in ways we cannot and should not ignore.
However sensitive, I think the time has passed when we can keep this set of issues on the sidelines of the very important set of subjects Bill Rice has been raising about what is really going on in the management of this platform.
As I recall it, developments following in the wake of Oct. 7, 2023-- an event subject to contending interpretations-- blew away the sense of solidarity among many of us who had come to share a feeling of like-minded camaraderie from opposing together the sometimes lethal frauds entailed in the manufactured COVID crisis.
The significance of post-Oct. 7 developments for Substack seemed to come into focus with the extension by the owners of Substack of a host especially advantageous treatments to Bari Weiss's Free Press.
From the comments made in response to the essay cite above, I learned I was far from alone in my dismay at the Substack proprietors' for their decision to make Bari Weiss's Free Press the favoured flagship blog of this entire platform.
The larger picture soon emerged that Bari Weiss is an important player along with Oracle Founder Larry Ellison, a very close personal friend of Bibi Netanyahu, in a significant remaking of the US media to reinforce its already formidable Zionist character. Bari Weiss and her Free Press, we have learned, will become pivotal in the remaking of CBS news. Moreover, the Ellison family with its strong CIA/IDF orientation is taking over in the name of US national security, TIK TOK from the institutional complex of its Chinese founders and developers.
The US media and the US system of higher education are in the process of being radically reshaped to serve the US-Israel partnership in ways meant to discredit and marginalize the effectiveness of those trying to oppose what some of us see as a horrific genocide underway in Gaza. Bari Weiss's own personal history is very clearly on the side of the Zionist enemies of free speech and academic freedom.
What can we, the full array of Substack authors on all sides of the issues raised above, anticipate in the future given the trajectories of developments at Substack rooted in the recent history of this precious free speech platform?
For my coverage of the Bari Weiss/Free Press/Substack story see
