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TMC · 03-13-2026, 12:04 AM

https://puck.news/inside-ellisons-pl...-and-cbs-news/

But will the matrimony of Paramount's CBS News and Warner Bros.' CNN produce harmony and much-needed cost-savings, or layoffs and infighting?

TMC · 03-24-2026, 07:35 PM

CNN’s Kara Swisher vows to leave the network if Paramount takes over: “I’m not working for you hacks”

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?”

TMC · 07-30-2026, 01:58 PM

CNN is a thorn in the side of merger

CNN is a major point of political and regulatory friction holding up the massive $111 billion mega-merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). According to a July 2026 New York Times report, the cable news network has become a "thorn in the side" of David Ellison's acquisition.

TMC · 08-04-2026, 09:37 PM

David Ellison says CNN is the root cause of the opposition to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger

In a New York Times Op-Ed, the Paramount Skydance owner writes: ““I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases: the news. The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN. There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions. Unfortunately, I can’t give anyone a view into my heart and mind, but I can share this: I have regularly voted for candidates of both parties; I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal, just like most Americans; and when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend their newsrooms to my views. I believe that news should be based on facts and truth. Great news organizations like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle. That requires newsrooms that reflect the whole world, not one side of it. And it requires independence. Our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause.”

03-13-2026, 12:04 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,727	Will CBS News be folded into CNN? https://puck.news/inside-ellisons-pl...-and-cbs-news/ But will the matrimony of Paramount's CBS News and Warner Bros.' CNN produce harmony and much-needed cost-savings, or layoffs and infighting?

03-24-2026, 07:35 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,727	CNN’s Kara Swisher vows to leave the network if Paramount takes over: “I’m not working for you hacks” 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?”

07-30-2026, 01:58 PM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,727	CNN is a thorn in the side of merger CNN is a major point of political and regulatory friction holding up the massive $111 billion mega-merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). According to a July 2026 New York Times report, the cable news network has become a "thorn in the side" of David Ellison's acquisition.

08-04-2026, 09:37 PM	#4
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,727	David Ellison says CNN is the root cause of the opposition to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger In a New York Times Op-Ed, the Paramount Skydance owner writes: ““I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases: the news. The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN. There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions. Unfortunately, I can’t give anyone a view into my heart and mind, but I can share this: I have regularly voted for candidates of both parties; I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal, just like most Americans; and when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend their newsrooms to my views. I believe that news should be based on facts and truth. Great news organizations like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle. That requires newsrooms that reflect the whole world, not one side of it. And it requires independence. Our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause.”