David Folkenflik
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Paramount CEO David Ellison, a political ally of the president, visited with Trump last week, according to CNN.
Gail Slater was seen as a regulator who took questions of corporate consolidation seriously.
But the Justice Department settled a lawsuit she had filed against HP's $14 billion bid to take over a competitor.
And the deal ultimately went through.
President Trump, of course, likes to be the decider on such matters.
He earlier announced he would personally examine the Netflix offer for Warner Brothers Discovery, then said he'd sit it out.
Warner has repeatedly rejected Paramount's rival bids.
Paramount CEO David Ellison, a political ally of the president, visited with Trump last week, according to CNN.
Attorney General, Gail Slater was seen as a regulator who took questions of corporate consolidation seriously.
But the Justice Department settled a lawsuit she had filed against HP's $14 billion bid to take over a competitor.
And the deal ultimately went through.
Will Lewis had been CEO of The Wall Street Journal and a veteran news executive in Britain, but he was dogged by controversies from his days as an executive for Rupert Murdoch's papers in London.
The Post had been running deep in the red, and Lewis's promised innovations failed to stem the losses.
When owner Jeff Bezos killed a planned editorial endorsement of Kamala Harris and made the editorial pages friendlier to President Trump, hundreds of thousands of digital subscribers canceled.
On Wednesday, the Post announced 300 journalists would be laid off.