Reeves Weideman
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Feb
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And the other was about the TikTok deal, which has been long gestating, in which Oracle is now an owner in the American version of TikTok.
There was the long saga over the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris in 2024, where Trump sued 60 Minutes and CBS.
That suit was eventually settled and seems to kind of have been the last thing that needed to happen before
for the Trump administration to approve the merger of Skydance and Paramount.
So the Ellisons clearly continuing up through today in their pursuit of Warner Brothers have been willing to cater to the Trump administration and give in in certain respects when it's in their interest to do so.
Yeah.
Well, I think David Ellison's first stop after he bought Paramount was to tour the CBS News offices.
And that came on the heels of settling this 60 Minutes lawsuit.
There was a lot of angst and a lot of concern about how he was going to try to redirect CBS News.
So he showed up, walked through the offices.
According to my reporting, he's never been back.
And I think what that symbolizes is...
David has never cared about the news business.
It's never really been something he's interested in.
I think he probably would have been happy if he didn't have to buy CBS as part of buying Paramount, if he could have just bought the movie studio.
But the reality is it's part of the business he owns.
And so I think that the two things I heard is that, one, he's going to try things to try to sort of rejuvenate CBS News, which has struggled a little bit in ratings and otherwise.
And, you know, potentially that he is going to be willing to do things that might make the Trump administration happy.
And so a few months after buying Paramount, he bought the Free Press, which is this kind of right-leaning publication started by Barry Weiss, who was named the editor-in-chief of
of CBS News.
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