David Folkenflik

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217 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The NPR Politics Podcast · What is Trump's interest in Paramount's merger with WB? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

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They say we need this scale to fight the streamers, just as Disney got approval during the first Trump administration to buy most of Fox's Hollywood assets because they saw the streaming threat coming. matched

Right now, Paramount and Warner, you know, with Paramount Plus and HBO Max are looking to their digital competitors and saying we're going to have real trouble winning this alone. matched

Well, they've got to walk a fine line. matched

You know, Larry and David Ellison have not been subtle because they can't be subtle in appealing to President Trump in such a way that they're going to say we'll be good stewards of CNN in the way that you want us to be. matched

And so, for example, Larry Ellison has been an advisor for for Trump on issues and other issues. matched

Larry Ellison has given money towards his political races. matched

David Ellison hosted a dinner at the Peace Institute now named for the president, which is in some ways supposed to be in honor of the First Amendment, at which Trump was the guest of honor. matched

And yet publicly, you know, David Ellison says, look, we are trying to remedy the the matched

deep plunges in trust the public writ large has in the press, and we're trying to restore that in how we approach the news. matched

He wrote an op-ed this week saying that his interest was in making sure he'd never put a finger on the scale. matched

that he has supported Republicans and Democrats, and he just wants to restore trust. matched

But what he hasn't done is really talk about his father's relationship to the president or the moves that he has made at CBS in the brief time in which he has owned and controlled that network. matched

And, you know, I mentioned all the assets that are underneath the same roof. matched

But of course, you know, CBS News and CNN would be under the same roof as well. matched

And they have not signaled exactly what they're going to do. matched

You know, if you think about how Trump is weighed in, just the clip that Mara played for us there about this, he's eager for CNN to be under the Ellison's control. matched

British regulators just this week approved the merger, but won a series of concessions about the way in which matched

The news operations there and certain kinds of British entertainment properties that they would control there if the merger goes through would operate through the end of 2034. matched

The Trump administration offered kind of a matador defense. matched

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