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Megyn Kelly didn’t mince words after Katie Couric recently warned that the Ellisons’ move to fold Bari Weiss’s Free Press into CBS and put Weiss in a position of power is “compromising independent journalism.” Conservatives watching this circus know exactly why Couric sounded alarmed — ownership shifts do matter — but what Kelly exposed was the performative panic from a legacy anchor who helped build the very machine she now laments.
Kelly’s real target was Couric’s sanctimony: the same network elites who for years set the cultural and political agenda suddenly act like custodians of some neutral, unimpeachable standard of journalism. Megyn pointed out the obvious — when conservatives demand balance, the response from the old guard is sneering and moralizing, not introspection — and that hypocrisy is the real scandal here.
Let’s be clear: Katie Couric has never been a disinterested referee in our media fights. She’s made dismissive comments about Trump voters being “anti-intellectual” and has been part of a media ecosystem that treats conservative viewpoints as deviations from the norm. When former insiders suddenly become arbiters of independence only after their monopoly is threatened, their outrage reeks of self-preservation, not principle.
Meanwhile Bari Weiss isn’t some partisan saboteur — she built an independent platform because legacy outlets were failing the country. Her ambition to shake up CBS is precisely what a broken news industry needs: a shake-up toward balance, accountability, and less sermonizing from the anchor desk. The establishment’s fear is not about “independence,” it’s about losing the cultural control they’ve enjoyed for decades.
Megyn also made a crucial point that conservatives understand instinctively: new-media transparency about bias is healthier than the pretense of objectivity that always masked activist journalism. Kelly has argued consistently that audiences deserve to know where a journalist stands, and then decide whom to trust — not be lectured by elites who pretend neutrality while running a closed loop of opinion. That’s not just theory; it’s how trust is rebuilt.
This episode should be a wake-up call for patriots who still believe in a functioning free press. Support independent voices who challenge the cartel mentality of old networks, and don’t be fooled by late-stage handwringing from people who helped create the problem. Megyn Kelly did the country a service by calling out Couric’s absurd grandstanding — now it’s on Americans to keep pushing for media that serves the truth, not the tribe.
