This post is for the many people that turn to CNN for their daily news….you might want to rethink that decision.

It is no secret that I do not trust many of the MSM to tell us peasants what is really happening in the country and the world.

Now CNN will most likely enter into the Trump sphere of bullshit.

Concerns are mounting about the state of the US media landscape now that it looks increasingly likely that Paramount Skydance—a company controlled by the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, a donor to President Donald Trump—will succeed in its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

One day after Netflix announced that it was dropping its previously accepted bid to buy Warner, many critics demanded that antitrust laws be invoked to block the Paramount-Warner merger from going through.

Alvaro Bedoya, former commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, warned that the Ellison family could soon use their control over vast swaths of US media properties to engage in mass censorship, and he pointed to their decisions to cancel Stephen Colbert’s program and to refuse to air an interview with Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico.

“One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok,” he wrote in a social media post. “They’ll buy [Warner Bros. Discovery] with $24 billion in money from the Saudis, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert… and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.”

Craig Aaron, co-CEO of Free Press, said the proposed Paramount-Warner merger was “even worse” than the proposed Netflix-Warner merger.

“This deal endangers our democracy by giving a family of pliant billionaires even more control of vast swaths of our news coverage, TV stations, and movie studios,” Aaron said. “Allowing more mergers in the already highly concentrated movie business will harm filmmakers and industry workers when Paramount delivers on its promise to make deep cuts to please its Wall Street backers.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/paramount-warner-merger-criticism

Little Donny already has FOX News and OAN in his pocket and now that will expand.

The morons are already slobbering over this eventuality…..Pistol Pete has his say….

During a briefing on the Iran war Friday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth ventured into unexpected territory: ownership of CNN. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” Hegseth said in complaining about the network’s war coverage, reports the Hill. Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is poised to acquire CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. Hegseth’s remark is likely to amplify anxiety inside CNN and across the industry that Ellison—who is friends with President Trump—could steer the channel’s journalism in a direction more favorable to the White House, per the New York Times.

Ellison has publicly pledged to protect CNN’s newsroom from political interference. “Editorial independence will absolutely be maintained,” he said in a CNBC interview last week. “It is maintained at CBS; it will be maintained at CNN.” Ellison bought CBS last year and installed Bari Weiss, a high-profile critic of legacy media, as editor in chief of CBS News. Weiss has faced internal and external pushback, particularly after delaying a 60 Minutes piece critical of the Trump administration.

“Fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz,” Hegseth said Friday. “Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do. … CNN doesn’t think we thought of that. It’s a fundamentally unserious report.” The former Fox News host also complained about negative TV news banners. “What should the banner read instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate?  Because they are.”

So maybe look for another news source that is reliable because CNN just does not make the grade anymore.

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