Weiss: The Free Press targets the broad "self-silencing majority"
Bari Weiss · Bari Weiss | All-In Summit 2024 · Sep 19, 2024 · at 3:51
Bari Weiss discusses political polarization in the U.S. and explains the strategy and target audience for her media outlet, The Free Press.
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“There are three sides that I see that are emerging, and I think the free press is trying to position itself in what I believe is the broad self-silencing Majority piece of the pie, which is to say there's a woke left, there's increasingly a woke right, and then there's the normal people”
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