David Ellison breaks silence on Paramount-WBD merger fight, CNN insiders don’t buy ‘lip service’ about network

Paramount CEO David Ellison says the real fight over his $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger is whether he can be trusted as a steward of CNN news.

"I believe that anyone who oversees a news organization — I am chief executive of Paramount, which owns CBS — shouldn’t put a finger on the scale, especially on matters involving his own company," Elllison wrote.

Analysis: David Ellison says he won’t bend CNN to his views  CNN

In an effort to get his Paramount-Warner Bros. merger approved, Paramount CEO David Ellison took to the far-left New York Times on Tuesday, hoping to ease the left’s mind about his intentions regarding CNN (which is part of Warner Bros.).

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison broke his silence on the antitrust litigation facing his company’s proposed $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. In a New York Times guest essay published Tuesday, Ellison argued that legal pushback against the deal has been motivated by concerns over his ownership of CN

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison attended President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Paramount's David Ellison courted President Donald Trump while seeking approval for his WBD deal. Trump's Department of Justice approved the Paramount-WBD deal, but some states are suing to s

David Ellison Pens Op-Ed Defending ‘My Politics’ After CBS News Disaster  HuffPost

Media executive David Ellison is defending Paramount’s bid to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery and defending himself against accusations of implementing political bias at his media properties. In an op-ed published by the New York Times on Tuesday, Ellison said he “shouldn’t put a finger on the scale, especially on m

‘The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,’ Ellison wrote. ‘There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions’

In a guest essay for The New York Times on Tuesday, Paramount CEO David Ellison says CNN is at the root of opposition to the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Concerns about market share are not the main driver of antitrust lawsuits filed by 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America,…

'While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more," Ellison writes in a new op-ed.

Paramount CEO David Ellison said he believes the antitrust litigation filed by 12 states and the Writers Guild of America isn’t about market share but about “whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN.” Ellison, in an op-ed published by the New York Times Tuesday, noted, “There has been speculation about my…

The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN