"Contrarian"

Still means what it has my whole life: in agreement with the elite consensus, debating opponents who don't even have their own platform.

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

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— NPR (@npr.org) October 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM

As NPR well knows, having done this schtick themselves for years.