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> Paramount is a highly leveraged company. They are not going to come out of this very expensive acquisition unscathed.

Is this before or after Ellison et co gut the news side of the organization to create another Fox New / RT? We've already seen what happened with 60 Minutes and CBS News:

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/bari-weiss-c...

* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/inside-bari-we...

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Ellison is more pragmatic than his current activities make it appear. He's playing to the right wing now because Trump was in office, but during the last administration he played heavily to the left.

When push comes to shove, he'll follow the money. If Republicans lose the midterms, CBS will start shifting back to the middle to regain the millions of viewers it lost to NBC and ABC since Weiss took over and Weiss will probably be looking for a new job.

I’ve listened to Bari for years in her podcast and she’s indistinguishable from every liberal I was around in the 80s and 90s.

Choosing not to jump aboard all the insane modern woke politics doesn’t make you some scary right winger.

She could only help a legacy news outfit in my opinion.

How many people are going to watch a right wing CNN? We saw the CBS viewership for the new partisan news plummet.

At the end of the day, you have to draw attention to make money.

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