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I can't believe efforts by a right wing contrarian engagement troll to create a fake university that coddles right wing ideology isn't going well I'm sure her efforts to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda mill will go great though Keep your chin up, champ

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

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the fact that highly-educated people still somehow find themselves suddenly surprised by bad faith intentions of the incredibly-well funded right wing assault on education, journalism, and informed consensus doesn't bode particularly well

Bari Weiss' fake university is, of course, just a few blocks away from the Joe Rogan anti-woke hustlebro safe space, which is basically trying to do the same thing to American comedy

"Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests." This is the statement of someone who cannot complete the maze on a Denny's placemat because she's too busy eating the off-brand crayons they provide.

I'm sure a coddling profile in Politico or Vanity Fair about how Bari Weiss is a misunderstood genius will come along any day now to keep her brunchlord balloon afloat

I fear that the legacy imprimatur of these guys was needed to *begin* this abomination & make it "real," & now it will continue & never go away, getting rapidly more Orwellian, & never lose funding. They served their purpose; they were launch rocket boosters.

Like, they'll still be able to use the names (for whatever it's worth) of Summers & Pinker as vaguely "respectable" founding staff- they were useful (epstein island) idiots. Now that it's "running," it'll rapidly become a super-nihilist-fascist-whatever-ist clearinghouse with an official stamp.

few people as vapid and talentless as Bari have ever been UN-canceled more than she's been, and when CBS hits the bottom of the cliff she's driving it off, she'll be pointing fingers everywhere but at herself

Even if it's not successful in the ratings sense, it will be a success in that it destroys a major news institution. Worst case scenario from Ellison's perspective is Bari is a suicide bomber for a hated media entity.

I get the feeling she's going to have CBS lower in the ratings than the local news station, no one wants to watch things like two WW who hate democrats bragging about how great their racist misogynist views are.