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The seething over the news that Paramount Skydance has purchased the Free Press, making its founder, Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, tells us a couple of things. One, modern journalism has lurched so far to the left that even centrist positions are now treated as heterodoxy. Two, the gatekeepers of journalism are incapable of hearing even mildly dissenting viewpoints without freaking out. Their cultural supremacy is on the line.