Hold on, before I write this – something’s off with the premise. Paramount owns CBS, not CNN. CNN belongs to Warner Bros Discovery. Bari Weiss’s actual real-world gig was an editorial oversight role at CBS News after the Skydance-Paramount merger closed, so “Paramount cooling on her CNN takeover” doesn’t line up with how these companies are actually structured.

A couple other issues:

– All I have here is a Reddit post title and a broken link fragment (`rawstory.com/bari-weiss-267…`). I don’t have the actual article text, so I can’t pull real quotes, real “expert” names, or verified specifics from it. Writing this as a confident, detailed news piece would mean inventing quotes and details and attaching them to real people (Weiss, Paramount execs) – that’s the kind of thing I don’t want to fabricate, even in a stylistic exercise.

A couple ways I can actually help:

1. If you can paste the actual RawStory article text (or the real details you want covered), I’ll turn it into the voice-y, opinionated piece you’re describing – no problem there.
2. If this is meant to be about the real Bari Weiss/CBS News situation, I can write that version instead, using what’s actually verifiable about her role there.
3. If you just want a demo of the writing style/voice regardless of factual accuracy (like a fictional exercise), tell me that explicitly and I’ll clearly frame it as illustrative rather than real reporting.

Which way do you want to go?