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MAGA billionaires win battle to buy CNN and turn it Trumpy
Daily Beast ^ | 2/26/2026 | Vic Verbalaitis

Posted on 02/26/2026 7:38:37 PM PST by simpson96

MAGA-aligned billionaires Larry Ellison and his son David have dramatically won a bidding war for CNN’s parent company—and are now on track to turn it Trumpy.

Their Paramount Skydance company suddenly has won its bidding war against Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery after upping its bad and the younger Ellison attending Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

The move comes two days after Paramount Skydance revised its offer for the media conglomerate which also owns HBO, and is Hollywood’s biggest movie make, from $30 per share to $31 per share.

Once the deal goes through CNN is widely expected to come under the control of Bari Weiss, the MAGA-curious Substacker who now runs CBS News. That network is already reeling from her turbulent leadership, with Anderson Cooper quitting 60 Minutes to focus solely on his CNN role—meaning that he will be reunited with her in the near future.

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To: simpson96

CNN will die no matter who won the bidding war.

Linear cable is DEAD as a doornail.

Add up viewers of ALL the three so-called major cable news networks on a given night and you barely get to five million in country of over 100 million households.

And when you look at the demographic you find a bunch of old geezers too lazy to use new media or form opinions on their own.


21 posted on 02/26/2026 8:17:58 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: lee martell

CNN Airport ended four years ago


22 posted on 02/26/2026 8:19:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: simpson96

All Silicon Valley executives should be screened for satanism, including Larry Ellison.

What do they have to lose?

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/afi/2020-10-15-ORACLE-S-LARRY-ELLISON-HIDES-THE-DARK-ARTS-PSYCHO-SCIENCE-CULT-THAT-GROOMED-HIM-AND-HIDES-RELATIONSHIP-TO-WT-STEAD-FATHER-OF-TABLOID-JOURNALISM-Americans-for-Innovation-Oct-15-20.pdf


23 posted on 02/26/2026 8:21:32 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Getready

RATs will do everything in their power to censor CNN if it becomes as patriotic as OAN. They even kicked a sitting President off Twitter.


24 posted on 02/26/2026 8:21:34 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: simpson96

All Silicon Valley executives should be screened for satanism, including Larry Ellison.

What do they have to lose?

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/afi/2020-10-15-ORACLE-S-LARRY-ELLISON-HIDES-THE-DARK-ARTS-PSYCHO-SCIENCE-CULT-THAT-GROOMED-HIM-AND-HIDES-RELATIONSHIP-TO-WT-STEAD-FATHER-OF-TABLOID-JOURNALISM-Americans-for-Innovation-Oct-15-20.pdf


25 posted on 02/26/2026 8:22:06 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Fai Mao
If CNN becomes a legit news source FOX will be sweating bullets.

Not at all. It will be great. Competition is good.

26 posted on 02/26/2026 8:24:07 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I didn’t know that. It’s been about 16 years since I’ve been to any airport.


27 posted on 02/26/2026 8:24:35 PM PST by lee martell
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To: simpson96

Finally, CNN may be watchable again.


28 posted on 02/26/2026 8:28:19 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: simpson96

For some reason that little punk from the extreme leftist Daily Beast didn’t mention that CNN has been the propaganda organ of the Rats since its founding.

I wonder why!


29 posted on 02/26/2026 8:29:50 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: lee martell

I’m retired, but take 2-4 personal flights per year.


30 posted on 02/26/2026 8:33:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: simpson96

“The author - graduated from New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute all of nine months ago.”
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So? He seems to know how to write properly.


31 posted on 02/26/2026 8:34:56 PM PST by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Biblebelter

“CNN will die no matter who won the bidding war.

Linear cable is DEAD as a doornail.

Add up viewers of ALL the three so-called major cable news networks on a given night and you barely get to five million in country of over 100 million households.

And when you look at the demographic you find a bunch of old geezers too lazy to use new media or form opinions on their own.”
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New media can’t be trusted even as much as old.


32 posted on 02/26/2026 8:36:54 PM PST by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: simpson96

there’s no way in hell that Bari Weiss will turn CNN “Trumpy”, assuming she’s the one really put in charge there ...


33 posted on 02/26/2026 8:52:15 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: simpson96
News has turned into a broken record of bad news, bad news, bad news

Spectrum BayNews9, the Tampa metro local cable news, leans left as one might expect. Nevertheless, every hour has an early segment, usually by Angie Angers, that is almost always human interest or good local news, that keeps the audience watching while they wait for the weather and traffic.

34 posted on 02/26/2026 8:59:18 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: simpson96
When I see Trumpy, I think of the creature in The Pod People made famous by MST3K.
35 posted on 02/26/2026 9:05:33 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Nateman

!CNN will be led by the Ellison family. Not going to happen!


36 posted on 02/26/2026 9:16:05 PM PST by neverbluffer
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To: Bob Wills is still the king
So? He seems to know how to write properly.

He seems to have skipped the course on PROOFREADING.

BID, not BAD.

37 posted on 02/26/2026 9:26:42 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Sailing the Sea of Ignorance on a Ship named Free Republic)
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To: Fai Mao

To reform CNN and bring it up to good journalism standards and accuracy and honesty of reporting, they had to announce a lot of people are being let got with write offs of their golden parachutes.

Then.... “Hello. Hello. (echo) Is anybody in this auditorium but me today?”
Maintenance man: “I’m here, sir. Just checking the circuit boards before your speech.”


38 posted on 02/26/2026 9:36:17 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Nateman

Won’t matter - Cable is dying and will soon be d.e.a.d.

CNN is small potatoes in this deal, but the Ellisons are gonna have fun turning it upside down.


39 posted on 02/26/2026 9:37:51 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: reasonisfaith

🎯 #10 zone

Transhumanism


40 posted on 02/26/2026 9:41:23 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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