https://puck.news/inside-ellisons-plan-to-merge-cnn-and-cbs-news/

But will the matrimony of Paramount's CBS News and Warner Bros.' CNN produce harmony (https://www.google.com/search?q=Will+CBS+News+be+folded+into+CNN%3F&sca_esv=3d359356975f5722&sxsrf=ANbL-n4HbBoNKEOxSx0xHb18oEW9uJbvJg%3A1773371135954&source=hp&ei=_36zab_-N-LMkPIPqa-zsAw&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAabOND50v7s4cfoXgxztjYRQXNPj0W9LG&ved=0ahUKEwj_-fGk8puTAxViJkQIHanXDMYQ4dUDCCE&uact=5&oq=Will+CBS+News+be+folded+into+CNN%3F&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IiFXaWxsIENCUyBOZXdzIGJlIGZvbGRlZCBpbnRvIENOTj8yBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRirAkjDBlAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAF_oAF_qgEDMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEC-AEBmAIBoAKMAZgDAJIHAzAuMaAH8gSyBwMwLjG4B4wBwgcDMi0xyAcHgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz) and much-needed cost-savings, or layoffs and infighting?

CNN’s Kara Swisher vows to leave the network if Paramount takes over: “I’m not working for you hacks” (https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/im-not-working-for-you-hacks-kara-swisher-vows-to-leave-cnn-if-the-ellisons-buy-it/)

The tech journalist, star of the upcoming CNN docuseries Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever, expressed her thoughts on a David Ellison takeover Monday at Syracuse University. “On some level, I don’t have to because I’ve created my own media organization where I make a lot of money,” she said. “So I don’t have to. And so for me stand up to say, I’m not working for you hacks, I’m just not doing it, and it’s not worth it to me. Especially in a business, television, which is the audiences are going like this and aging like this. So, I do a lot better direct to consumer kind of thing. And so it just doesn’t hurt me because I can wander over to MS if I feel like having a television, I can wander anywhere else. But it doesn’t matter because I reach, right now, Pivot has a bigger demo in the 25-to-45 range than all the cable networks in prime time, right?”