“Donald Trump sees himself as the lead shareholder in every single transaction out there,” said Frank Sesno, a former longtime Washington bureau chief and reporter for CNN. “He can weigh in in ways that no president in modern history every would, especially when it comes to how the news is going to be produced.”

Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, has already announced a plan to sell its sprawling movie and entertainment studios to streaming giant Netflix. The multibillion-dollar deal will need to be approved by Trump’s government regulators.

Regardless of whether its deal with Netflix clears, Warner Bros. Discovery has said it plans to spin its struggling linear broadcast assets, including TNT Sports, Discovery and CNN, into a separate entity.

Paramount is pursuing a purchase of the entire Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio as part of its hostile bid competing with Netflix.

Trump has stopped short of saying he supports Paramount’s bid, though he has suggested Netflix’s market share “could be a problem” for federal regulators. He’s also spoken glowingly about Larry and David Ellison, the billionaire father-son duo atop Paramount’s masthead.

After Warner Bros. Discovery announced its deal with Netflix, David Ellison reportedly called Trump, suggesting the agreement was not good for competition in the media sector and pledging to make major editorial changes at CNN if his bid to take over the outlet succeeds.

CNN declined to comment, but some of the network’s top talent have acknowledged the pressure the news organization is facing from the president.

Jake Tapper, one of the CNN’s leading anchors in Washington, blasted the president during one newscast this week for “breaking with longstanding precedent on the role of a president when it comes to private commercial transactions.”

“He’s making his position on the acquisition very clear,” Tapper said. “Saying he’s very focused on the fate of this news network and he will involve himself in the purchase.”

Collins, another top anchor for the network whom Trump has called out by name, expressed shock at the president’s comments on the impending sale, calling it “astounding.”

CNN, like many cable news channels, has seen its ratings slump and business model threatened by an increasingly tough advertising market and more cord cutting by consumers each year.

The network was dealt a major setback during President Biden’s years in office when it rolled out and quickly shuttered a subscriber-based streaming news service and fired a CEO who vowed to move its coverage more closely to the political center.

Now its impending sale is creating an environment where press advocates warn the president or other critics in the administration can more easily send a chilling message.

“It’s none of the president’s business who runs CNN or whether it should be sold,” said Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. “President Trump’s comments calling it ‘imperative that CNN be sold’ so it can install leadership and produce coverage he finds more favorable is wildly inappropriate and has no place in a free society.”

A White House official told The Hill on Friday the president can express “his desire for a change in CNN’s mediocre journalistic standards, as he has done for years, while remaining neutral on the Paramount and Netflix bidding war.”

>>1464919
let it die

>>1464919
>Boomer on boomer violence
Imagine Donald's surprise when the midterms come and millennials/zoomers care more about their grocery bills than the decaying husk of cable tv

>>1464919
Donald Trump would be completely irrelevant in the 21st century without Jeff Zucker, former CEO of NBC and CNN, propping him up in the public eye every step of the way.
So of course Trump is lashing out at one of the two Zucker run networks that got him where he is
It's always surprising how aggressively Trump will go out of his way to stab people who help him in the back. The MSM, James Comey, Jeff Sessions, all were instrumental in making him president in 2016, and all have suffered his wrath as thanks

>>1464919
>Paramount, a massive media company increasingly friendly with the president, wins a hostile takeover bid for the cable news network and other assets belonging to Warner Bros. Discovery.
Yeah, Paramount's Stephen Colbert loves Trump.

>>1465018
Imagine if they think voting Democrat would lower any bill.
You'd have to be an utter maroon to believe something that insane.

>>1465082
Well voting Republican started a trade war that jacked up prices on everything, so it may just be a case of wanting to mitigate damage

>>1465083
So, I'm supposed to do what here?
Should I argue with some retard who's claiming that higher food prices are due to tariffs?
Should I fruitless point out to such a retard Biden's ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INSANE INFLATION yet again?
No, I think the answer here is simple.
I think you simply need to quit being a faggot on my Internet. No one believes you, not even you.

>>1465088
>Should I fruitless point out to such a retard Biden's ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INSANE INFLATION yet again?
That inflation that started weeks after he took office that had absolutely nothing to do with the trillions of dollars the previous administration printed and dumped into the economy the year before, right?

>>1465088
esl

>>1465088
If the inflation was only because of Biden then why was the rest of the world affected?

>>1465091
The inflation that ran at over 10% for 3 years of his presidency? The inflation that was pinned by everyone but you as being tied to the Biden stimulus specifically?
Why did The Lord even give you an opinion?

>>1465093
Because the rest of the world uses the USD as the reserve currency. Literally their fault.

>>1465098
maybe if you whine for another 100 posts your lies will be true

>>1465099
Don't you think it was because of the worldwide pandemic instead?

>>1465100
Nah, simply quit being a faggot on MY INTERNET. There will be no debate on this point.

>>1465099
so do you want it to be obvious you're not american? i don't really get what you're trying to do anymore shill

>>1465103
Are you evading a ban yet again?

>>1465100
He can't help but revise history. It hasn't ever worked, but it's all he has.

>>1465102
we're supposed to believe you're american while you whine about how bad it is that the USD is a reserve currency? jesus the shills here are amateurs

>>1465107
I think this is some sort of training ground for them. They say the illogical stuff they couldn't on normal sites to gauge the reaction.

>>1465105
LOL. to take a page out of your shill talking point binder:

>"i accept your concession"

>>1465098
>The inflation that ran at over 10% for 3 years of his presidency?
This is a lie
You know it's a lie
I know it's a lie
You know I know it's a lie
I know you know it's a lie
There's no point in asking you to back it up with proof, because you knew it was a lie when you typed it
So what am I supposed to do with this

>>1465110
It's the shizo fuck that thinks I'm literally every other poster on this shit board. Nice to see you again

>>1465113
i'm schizo? you're the one constantly responding to yourself. make it less obvious ok

>>1465112
https://www.investopedia.com/us-inflation-rate-by-president-8546447#toc-harry-s-truman-19491953

>>1465117
Why do you keep posting links that prove you wrong?

>>1465117
>>1465118
That's not the same guy, right? That was someone posting that to further verify he was lying, right?

>>1465113
>shizo
The self-responding schizo shill who is illiterate has circumvented another ban. One of many in the past.

>>1465120
Yes, inflation was only above 10% for about one year under Biden. Total YOY was 4.95%.
He's right about it being tied to the American Rescue Act though.

>>1465123
Oh, and one of Biden's executive orders fucked up to supply chain too.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_on_America%E2%80%99s_Supply_Chains
Joe Biden should be regarded as a serious fuck up no matter who you are.

>>1465123
>>1465124
>Biden's 2 trillion dollar print job exacerbated and extended peak inflation
Sure, I can agree with that
>Trump's 2 trillion dollar print job less than a year before had nothing to do with inflation spiking
This is the part most of MAGA throws in that causes conversations to derail, and what was being implied in the initial accusation here >>1465088 before even the lie about three years of 10 percent inflation got thrown out by (probably?) the same anon here >>1465098

>>1465124
it's impossible to take you seriously, you know that right shill

>>1465124
>one of Biden's executive orders fucked up to supply chain too
>the Nintendo Switch 2 was released after 20th January 2025
Try telling that to Republican parents of disappointed children 11 days from now.
You can explain to their faces why they should continue to be in lockstep with cultists' wrong opinions and not get their revenge on your orange god in the midterms a few months from now.
>Republicans voting for a Democrat mayor in Miami
>Republicans refusing to be in lockstep with Trump cultists' wrong opinions in Indiana
...oh wait. It's too late. Reality is already saying 'Fuck your feelings', MAGAtards. Good

>>1465126
>This is the part most of MAGA throws in that causes conversations to derail,
Well, you can use Google can't you? It's not a MAGA claim from my understanding.
>>1465129
Meds,

>>1465081
trump got Colbert fired. If the merger goes through, expect to see trump get John Oliver fired next even though he is one of the most popular and watched people on HBO.

>>1465088
Because it is trump's fault, you're a trump shill who will continue to scapegoat everyone else for the trump recession. And soon to be trump depression when his AI bubble bursts.

>>1465177
>trump got Colbert fired.
NGL I had no idea and also pretty cool.
Colbert reminds me that leftist watched V for Vendetta and said, "Hey we should literally do that!"

>>1465177
>expect to see trump get John Oliver fired next even though he is one of the most popular and watched people on HBO.
That would be nice. The level of "left" wing propaganda being explosively diarrhea-ed into the zeitgeist should be quelled.

I still recall the time that Paramount's Stephen Colbert had Paramount's LeVar Burton, previously of Reading Rainbow fame, on to complain about DEI books being banned.
The book in question was actually designed by a publisher held by Paramount intended to be sold to public schools as Paramount was attempting to off-load the publisher at an inflated price.

Leftfags got totally on-board with this idea and were completely wagged like little stupid dogs as per usual, since the current leftist movement centers around being total corporate tools.

>>1464919
oh wow professional political agitators that make a living off falsifying news are finally getting consequences

>>1465202
here's your gold medal in projecting, shill. you've done it again

>>1465083
um actually the prices on things are normal, the "jacked up" price is a myth because the tariffs aren't even in full effect yet. CUSMA circumvents most of the trade tariffs between us mexico and canada.
>>1465177
>>1465126
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat
I don't expect a TDS patient to be able to do research but if you'll check commodity prices you'll see the vast majority are actually around the same level if not a bit down from 2024
just scroll down the link and it shows you most consumer commodities change since last year

cheese palmoil milk cocoa cotton rubber orange juice oats rice canola sugar corn
all down some by enormous amounts
the only significant price increase is coffee wool and soybeans

>>1465129
you're an uneducated cultist, when another republican wins in 2028 which they will at the current polls trajectory, maybe you should consider investing in a good rope.

>>1465204
the more you post the easier it is to ignore you

>>1465205
I'm sorry you're a bigot who can't handle reality and facts.

>>1465208
we can all handle the factual reality that you're a shameless trump knobgobbler, that doesn't mean we can't make fun of you for it

>>1465210
you don't refute facts, you attack the person, that's literal proof you're an uneducated moron who can't handle reality.
ok? well making fun of someone because you can't stand the facts they present just makes you look stupid. what do you want me to say. you're a grade school level cretin

>>1465204
>Unironically uses TDS
into the trash your shitpost goes

esl shill is arguing with ghosts again. somebody remind him to take his meds

>>1465192
>>1465189
>State Censorship is okay when far right conservatives do it.
Tell us something new, more than the attempt to do the same to Jimmy blew up in your faces.

>>1465216
>>1465213
>>1465210
>>1465217
imagine rewriting your post because you mispelled factually =/= factual
god
>>1465216
yet another grade school baby debate skill
smh the american education is really failing here. when CNN gets sued i'm going to look foward to seeing you screech about how its unfair life's so unfair they aren't pandering to me

>>1465218
right wingers are just stupid cucks who won't take action, if they did to jimmy what happened to kirk, people would just shut up already.

>>1465219
imagine having your life and sucking billionaire dick for pennies. couldn't be me. why don't you perform another angry soliloquy for us though

>>1465169
>Meds
>this is the best a cultist can come up with as a counter to what is a statement of fact
You're an uneducated cultist, when a Democrat wins in 2028 which they will at the current polls trajectory, may you live in interesting times.
>>1465204
When the midterm massacre happens I'll look forward to your screeching about the reality of how Trump without power won't be fair to you.
>the fact it's already started before 2026: Miami. Indiana
They aren't pandering to you already.
>inb4 any & all replies which reveal the shill's lies
Doing so means you know I'm right.

>>1465231
>You're an uneducated cultist, when a Democrat wins in 2028 which they will at the current polls trajectory, may you live in interesting times.
I know. You'll probably put everyone in death camps who opposes you. Should be interesting.

>>1465241
>>1465169
>Meds
>>1465204
>maybe you should consider investing in a good rope
I know. Because reality requiring you to take the former because you want others to do the latter shows you're a terrorist reduced to threats, and given enough power you would put everyone not exactly like you in death camps, otherwise you wouldn't say 'maybe you should consider investing in a good rope', the fact you're screeching in /news/ because Miami & Indiana proves how the process of rightards being denied the right to have socio-political power pendulum is now swinging the other way and before the midterms, you're already living in interesting times. And you've brought it upon yourselves.
How's it feel being in that very deep hole of wrong opinions you've dug for yourselves by voting in Trump, rightards? I wouldn't know about that, having the high ground: and that's even above the top of said hole you've dug yourselves into, cultists.
I'll be here enjoying the resulting schadenfreude, while you're reduced to eating crow.

>>1465260
HEY, DICKFACE! You're replying to two different people you retarded fucking mong.
Take those fucking med I recommended you fucking half baked retard.
>I'll be here enjoying the resulting schadenfreude,
What's that like a boiled human leg or something, you absolute fucking schizo douche?

>DICKFACE!
>mong
>retard
>med
>schizo
>seething this much
>>1465261 already living in self-imposed times that are interesting is having the desired effect.

>>1465263
So, you're trolling is what you're saying?

>>1465218
>State censorship
What law did the state use to censor Colbert?

>>1465274
Oh they didn't even exploit the law. Just straight up threatened to completely kill any buyouts and major purchases the company made unless they fired him. It was effectively extortion.

>>1465269
No, I'm just saying that >>1465263 in saying
>DICKFACE!
>mong
>retard
>med
>schizo
is behaving in a such a way that a normal sane person wouldn't. But what's happening to rightists because of everything they say, do & think is having the desired effect: seething because things aren't going their way, and they don't like it. And it's all their fault.
There's a simple solution: don't be a rightist. There are those who no longer speak, act & think like >>1465261 in Miami & Indiana: they're becoming normal sane humans. And they're not the only ones. And not only in those states. The midterms next year will prove that.
This can only be a good thing. But not for rightists. Good

>>1465278
>don't be a rightist.
But I'm not right wing.

>>1465278
>>1465261 in saying
>DICKFACE!
>mong
>retard
>med
>schizo
is reality having the desired effect: that things aren't going their way, certainly in the midterms next year. This can only be a good thing.

>>1465277
Source?

>>1465280
So you won't have a problem with how things aren't going how rightists want them to be, after what happened in Miami & Indiana. And beyond.
It'll onlt affect the likes of >>1465263, with the way he's seething
I don't have a problem with the way the political pendulum's swining, so you won't either if you're 'not right wing'.

>>1465287
>It'll only affect the likes of >>1465261, with the way he's seething

>>1465287
I'm not right wing, but I definitely will never vote for a Democrat. I'm not sure what happened in Miami and Indiana, but if they elected Democrats I feel sorry for them and hopefully the tenure of their Democrats will be short lived.

>>1465289
>hopefully
Considering how Republicans voted Democrat in Miami and Republicans refused to be in lockstep with the wrong opinions of a cultists' orange god in Indiana, all those who do have a problem with the way things are going, certainly next year in the midterms, will need to fill themselves with Hopium.
For those who do have a problem with what'll happen as proved by Miami & Indiana, thus is the shape of things to come in the midterms & beyond, I feel sorry for them no I don't

>>1465280
>>1465289
So you're so kind of lolbertarian?

>>1465367
Fuck no. But they're perhaps the most sane of the shit-ass choices in the US.

>>1465274
>Goalpost moving already

>>1465519
>state censorship
>do dat use der law, duuuhurrr?
Can you please kill yourself?

>>1465527
>doubles down on goalpost moving
>Also threats of violence
Classic rightoid behavior.