Reeves Weideman
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Feb
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There's been a lot of angst over kind of the direction of CBS News.
One of the weird things about the relationship is that Barry Weiss, typically the head of CBS News would sort of report up through the head of CBS, who would then report up to David Ellison.
Barry Weiss reports directly to David Ellison.
So that has fueled a lot of concern as we've watched a few things happen over the past couple of months.
There was this kind of infamous spiking of a 60 Minutes segment about a prison in El Salvador at the last minute that didn't run for about a month because Barry Weiss had decided it was not ready.
There have been a few just kind of question marks.
And the fact that she reports directly to David, I think, brings up this concern of kind of like while he is trying to appease the Trump administration, he is trying to get them on his side.
So that they will oppose the Netflix deal to buy Warner Brothers and favor his deal.
There's this concern that he will try to direct the news in sort of a Trump favorable direction.
Yeah, one of the things that's been reported is that Larry himself, Larry has been very involved in these negotiations, meeting with the Warner Brothers side, meeting with the Trump administration, sort of using his connections and influence to try to make this deal happen.
And one of the things that's been reported is that he even talked to Trump about this.
replacing certain anchors on CNN that maybe Trump doesn't like.
So you can see the ways in which, again, I'm not sure that the Ellison's, you know, that it's exactly an exact corollary to say the Murdoch's who have a clear sort of ideological vision for what they wanted Fox News to be.
But like many powerful people, I think the Ellisons can look at the media sometimes and want it to be, you know, a little bit more in their direction.
And I think they're going to be willing to make changes at CBS and CNN insofar as it seems to help them.
Well, they obviously, at a basic level, stand to gain one of the most iconic companies in Hollywood history.
It owns a film library, just sort of the most incredible film library there is, going back to Citizen Kane and just all kinds of popular, critically acclaimed movies, all of that.
Also owns HBO and the HBO Max streaming service, which is the other kind of crown jewel of this acquisition and is a lot of the reason that both Netflix and Paramount acquired.
are interested in this.
If either of these companies were to combine with HBO, it would add something like 100 million subscribers to their streaming services.
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