When Skydance — the company that owns Paramount — bought The Free Press and installed Barry Weiss as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the media world lost its mind. And sure, it looks like the right is tightening its grip on yet another major news network. But there’s a deeper story happening behind the scenes — one that legacy media doesn’t want to talk about.
While the billionaires consolidate, independent journalism is exploding on platforms like Substack. Pro-democracy voices, legal experts, and even former mainstream anchors are thriving here — because people are tired of the noise, the spin, and the normalization of authoritarian politics. The old media machine might be selling out, but a new ecosystem is rising, and it’s happening right here in real time.
