The Trump-charming boss of CBS is now desperately backtracking after spending months sucking up to the president.
David Ellison, the 43-year-old chief executive of Paramount Skydance, attempted to push back against fears that his company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery would lead to a partisan overhaul of CNN. In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Tuesday, the billionaire nepo baby insisted his personal politics will not dictate newsroom decisions, responding directly to an antitrust lawsuit that threatens to torpedo the $111 billion mega-merger.
A 12-state coalition, led by California and New York, filed suit last month in a bid to block the deal, alleging it would unlawfully reduce competition across basic cable and movie distribution. The Writers Guild of America slapped the media giants with a separate suit the following day, warning the consolidation would devastate the market for writers.
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