The CEO of Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News, has defended his politics after pushback over his attempted multi-billion-dollar buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN and HBO.
David Ellison broke his silence about the $110 billion deal - currently stalled due to a legal challenge from 12 states that alleges it would “extinguish competition” - to address “speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions.”