Paramount Skydance is planning to make a majority cash bid for CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery in an effort to consolidate the media giants, according to reporting in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
"The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio," people familiar with the situation told WSJ.
Skydance is run by David Ellison, son of multi-billionaire Larry Ellison who co-founded Oracle Corporation.
Skydance officially merged with Paramount in an $8 billion deal just weeks ago after CBS agreed to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for $16 million. Trump had claimed that a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was "unfairly edited" and put him at a disadvantage in the 2024 election.
Note the fear. They know that the monkeys have been running around the zoo shitting all over everything for 20 years and they're afraid that reasoning humans might put them back in their cages.
Dylan Byers reported that Bari Weiss might end up with a big position overseeing both irredeemable anti-journalistic outfits. He doesn't say if this is based on sources' statements or is just his idle, clickbait speculation:
Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
Very real possibility now:
Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery, unites CBS News and CNN, and expands Bari Weisss purview as "editor-in-chief" or "co-president" to include both...
Speaking of CBS: Despite having almost zero viewers, CBS's despised morning show thinks it has the swagger to casually support Charlie Kirk's murder.
Nate Burleson says that it's time for Republicans to reflect on our responsibility for political violence. He also declares that Charlie Kirk "offended" some "groups," and therefore he's responsible for his own murder.
He shouldn't have "offended" special protected "groups" that are allowed to murder you, you see.
Unrelated:
If you didn't hear, there was a " " " bomb threat " " " at the DNC earlier today, which most immediately guessed was called in by a leftwing ally to portray the left as The Real Victims Here.
"Jussie Smollett called it in" was one take.
Guess what, it was a fake.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The bomb threat earlier at the Headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington, D.C. was determined to not be credible, according to a Spokesperson for the DNC.
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