CNN Chaos ERUPTS As Hosts Panic Over Bari Weiss Takeover Plot - The Damage Report

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CNN chaos is already blowing up with hosts, such as Anderson Cooper, and leadership speaking out against Paramount execs putting CBS News boss Bari Weiss in charge of CNN, since she has dismantled CBS editorial independence. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. - 07/05/2026.


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Chaos Came to CBS News. What’s in Store for CNN? - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/business/media/cnn-bari-weiss-david-ellison.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Over nearly five decades, CNN has survived multiple owners, ratings ups and downs, and attacks by President Trump.

Now, its journalists are bracing for its most dramatic transformation yet: a corporate merger that would put the 24-hour cable network under the same ownership as CBS News.

David Ellison, the technology heir who controls Paramount, the owner of CBS, is poised to complete a $111 billion purchase of CNN’s parent company as soon as next month.

Mr. Ellison has not publicly detailed what he has in store for CNN. But the network’s newsroom is wary of his conspicuous coziness with Mr. Trump and the prospect that he may assign some oversight of CNN to Bari Weiss, his pick to run CBS News after he bought Paramount last year."