It started with something that didn’t happen. 

In the 2024 presidential election, the Washington Post didn’t endorse a candidate. It looked at the two top contenders and decided Kamala Harris wasn’t ready and Donald Trump was, well, we are talking about the Washington Post here. 

That decision cost the Post 250,000 subscribers. But it was followed relatively soon by an editorial that said the high costs of Obamacare were coming home to roost. Then another that urged fiscal restraint. Before long, Mark Thiessen, a columnist on the op-ed page, was happily declaring the Post was a “conservative newspaper.”

Now we read that Bari Weiss is “embattled.” Like heck she is. Larry Ellison, an outspoken Trump donor and the world’s second-richest man, is in her corner. And he owns the place – his family recently took over CBS and its parent company, Paramount Skydance. 

Ellison is trying to turn around CBS, which now trails the other big broadcast networks in nearly every category, and he is trusting her skepticism of the way news has been delivered in the US in the last 50 years to turn the tide.

That means a 60 Minutes story on a prison in El Salvador........

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