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If the WBD deal closes, Weiss could run bothCBS News and CNN simultaneously. CNN employees are freaking out. One CNN producer called it “the end of the global network Ted Turner founded.” CNN staff —allegedly adult, professional journalists— were even more unhinged.
Engage catastrophe mode. They are literally panicking.
“We are doomed,” one said. “We are f**ked,” said another. “The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” a third staffer explained.
What’s become obvious is that Ellison isn’t just buying a news network. He’s assembling an entire corporate media portfolio: The Free Press, Bari Weiss, CBS News, and now potentially CNN. That’s not a single acquisition; it’s a strategy.
The era of liberal media credibility as a self-fulfilling prophecy (“we’re the real news because we say so”) is visibly ending. What Ellison is building, piece by piece, might actually compete for credibility on meritinstead of just lazily inheriting a platform. That’s what “we are doomed” really means. CNN staff can see the day quickly coming when journalism skills are required instead of just woke bona fides.
We’ve already seen CBS, under Weiss’s stewardship, drifting toward more balanced reporting.
