The bidding war over Warners between Netflix and Paramount appears to have ended. Netflix decided that there was some amount of money it wouldn’t spend to get its hands on the Warner Brothers film library and its IPs, primarily the DC Comics stuff, leaving Paramount the apparent winner.
Hollywood hated the idea of Netflix killing and devouring a storied film studio the way Amazon had MGM, but every good liberal hates David Ellison because he doesn’t hate Trump. Paramount taking over Warners means that it also gets CNN. On top of CBS News. (Expect Sen. Elizabeth Warren to propose some anti-trust action in which every news program gets turned into a non-profit and run at taxpayer expense by her political allies.)
Had Netflix won, it would have had no use for CNN or the rest of the Warners channels and was going to dump them on anyone who wanted them. Ellison may well end up doing the same thing. After all Comcast just did it with MSNBC and the rest of its channel properties. But now there’s agita over the fate of CNN
Will CNN… *gasp* be forced to actually report the news?
For CNN, a Change in Ownership Means a Suddenly Uncertain Future — New York Times
CNN Braces for Ellison’s Control …
CBS News and CNN staffers fear ‘disaster’ as Paramount wins Warner Bros battle – The Guardian
MAGA Billionaires Win Battle to Buy CNN and Turn It Trumpy – Daily Beast
Because CBS News starts every broadcast with ‘Hail Trump’.
David Ellison brought in Bari Weiss to try and course correct CBS News to where news programs were maybe 20 years ago. That’s a long way from right-wing and it’s still biased towards the liberal side, but the goal is to occasionally show other points of view, fact check materials, and avoid open editorializing and hysterical agitprop.
The only people who would describe this as ‘Trumpy’ have lost anything resembling standards and believe that anything short of calling for Trump’s execution and those of his supporters live on the air amounts to “giving in to MAGA.”
No, CNN is not going to be FOX News. (Not that FOX News is all that either.) It might actually try reporting the news, which was the shocking proposal made by its previous boss before he was forced out, so that it can actually be seen as a reliable source (it won’t be) by more than 13% of the country.
The changeover may be fiery (at least in the media cabal’s misreporting of it) but mostly peaceful.
