Ana Kasparian

I don't find that particularly offensive.

In fact, I'm not represented by a union.

But when TYT had hired a president for the first time, this is back in 2016 or 2017.

She called everyone into her office because she wanted to get to know them and wanted to get to know what their role is within the company, what they're working on.

And I didn't find that threatening in any way.

I think the reason why the workers at CBS found it threatening is because of all of the reporting that came out prior to Barry Weiss being brought in.

And the Financial Times in particular had noted that David Ellison, after this merger with Paramount Sundance, with CBS and all of that, had said that he was considering purchasing the free press for a lot of money, by the way.

It ended up being one hundred fifty million dollars.

Originally, there were rumors that it was going to be as much as two hundred fifty million dollars.

Yes.

So I want to get back to that in just a minute.

But in regard to David Ellison, the Financial Times reported that he liked that the free press had a pro-Israel bias.

And so you have the reporters and some of the workers over at CBS worried that she's going to be brought on specifically to sway the reporting in a way that's more favorable to Israel and not necessarily fair or accurate.

So when the entire situation starts from that place, it's just it's really hard to recover from that.

You get what I'm saying?

Because they're worried that their reputation as reporters, their reputation as a news organization is going to tank as a result of that.

But on top of that.

Look, I also think David Ellison wanted to bring her on because in his mind, this is a way to marry digital independent media to legacy media, which is dying.

Let's keep it real.

Yeah.