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Thursday marked day one of Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, with David Ellison at the helm and his billionaire father Larry as its largest shareholder. Along with facing media reporters on Thursday, David Ellison spoke Friday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and doubled down on his promise to ensure CBS News lives “in the truth business” and that they should not “inject politics into everything we do.”
As part of larger interview focused on artificial intelligence, Paramount’s movie studio, the streaming platform Paramount+, and the NFL on CBS to name a few, co-host David Faber pivoted to CBS News by citing the meltdown from Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez claiming without evidence the network — because of its settlement last month with President Trump — is now state-run media.
