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WB+Netflix=$82.7 billion shocker!
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It does nothing of the sort, but if it comforts you, have at it.
That doesn't read like a bad reputation, but rather a very accomplished woman. Got something to counter it---ideally something that people of all political views might find damaging to a reputation?
Looks like Ellison wants to keep CNN’s status quo as it is…
variety.com
David Ellison Vows CNN Will Operate Independently as Paramount Buys Warner Bros.: ‘We Want to Be in the Truth Business’
Paramount Skydance's David Ellison maintained that CNN will remain an editorially independent news organization after his company closes its deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Looks like Ellison wants to keep CNN’s status quo as it is…
David Ellison Vows CNN Will Operate Independently as Paramount Buys Warner Bros.: ‘We Want to Be in the Truth Business’
Paramount Skydance's David Ellison maintained that CNN will remain an editorially independent news organization after his company closes its deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
That all depends on whether you believe this essential pull-quote from the Ellison interview:
Sure. How she trotted out outright lies about the Libya tragedy to the media while NS Advisor, the obvious incompetent execution of foreign policy in general during that same time, the rise of ISIS and their taking of territory is a key example. The complete ineptness of multiple domestic policy initatives while she served as Domestic Policy Advisor in the Biden Administration.
Even The Atlantic, hardly a right wing source, had to note her utter failures.
‘He lied to us’: CBS News staffers say new owner David Ellison ‘can’t be trusted’
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers said new owner David Ellison has broken his promise not to “politicize” the network by installing a Trump loyalist as ombudsman, and courting The Free Press founder Bari Weiss for a senior editorial position
www.independent.co.uk
‘CBS Mornings’ Exec Bails as Boss Seeks MAGA Host
A top CBS Mornings producer is leaving the program—a development that comes as CBS News boss Bari Weiss is reportedly seeking to hire a MAGA-friendly host for the show. Shawna Thomas, who has been the...
True that sounds good on paper for CBS News and CNN to have "Editorial Independence" but how will that work in practice. We seen the drama at CBS News under chief editor Bari Weiss and how the chief editors blog "The Free Press" got merged into a part of that operation as seen here.
Rice was Ambassador to the United Nations when she made those statements (she wouldn't be NSA until nine months later) and says she got bad information from the intelligence services.
It happens. If I had a dime for every Public Information Officer who told me something that he or she thought was true but wasn't because that's what they were told, I'd be a lot richer.
That said, the late Sen. John McCain, who I knew personally, didn't believe her. But he wasn't infallible, and there's no concrete evidence, presented by McCain or anyone else, that she knowingly lied.
NSA is not Secretary of State.
Gonna need to be more specific.
Well, let's be clear. The Headline "Susan Rice an Abysmal Failure at her Job" is the Ethopian Review's headline linking to an Atlantic article with a much more measured and sweeping view, which had its own headline: "A Withering Critique of Obama's National Security Council."
A Withering Critique of Obama's National Security Council
A preeminent expert on the making of American foreign and national-security policy grades the administration.
But---this piece is not the Atlantic noting "her utter failures"---it's Jeffrey Goldberg interviewing author David Rothkopf about his book National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.
Rothkopf, in fact, considered Rice to have a great many strengths, and the year before, published a piece saying that she had been cheated out of being Obama's Secretary of State over Benghazi. Essential pull-quote:
A Lucky Day for Susan Rice
Over the next four years, the United States will face extraordinary challenges worldwide and at home. And for those reasons, it may well be that being the next secretary of state will be every bit as great a trial as it is an honor.
Regardless, she remains a director at Netflix The CEO of the company used the opportunity to soak the president for a personal investment of $1.5 million. If the president is so angry at Netflix, why was he willing to put his own money in a company that has Susan Rice as a director?
Trump Bought Netflix Debt Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros.
New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
And, as Daily Kos notes in an editorial, Ellison's past actions belie his words.
How CBS’ owner is trying to gaslight America
David Ellison, chair and CEO of CBS’ parent company Paramount Skydance, is as delusional as ever. During an interview Thursday, Ellison said that he’s in the…
www.dailykos.com
Its more than that now given that the Ellisons are letting Bari Weiss run the news coverage while the war in Iran takes place.And, as Daily Kos notes in an editorial, Ellison's past actions belie his words.
How CBS’ owner is trying to gaslight America
David Ellison, chair and CEO of CBS’ parent company Paramount Skydance, is as delusional as ever. During an interview Thursday, Ellison said that he’s in the…
Trump-Approved CBS Boss Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’
Bari Weiss has made it clear where she stands on Trump’s war with Iran.
Insiders slam CBS News chief Bari Weiss’s ‘propaganda-palooza’ for Trump war in Iran
Critics were reportedly alarmed over the content of broadcasts and a tweet with a fire emoji from Weiss
www.independent.co.uk
Sadly, it seems like we have about a quarter of our population who does think it is "strident or inflammatory" to suggest such a thing -- or, to the point, they are deeply offended by the idea that the law is anything other than whatever the Trump administration says it is at the moment.
But I think it is a safe bet that Susan Rice will outlast the Trump administration.
For the time being. Likely not for too much longer.
Sounds like wishful thinking. Why would you wish bad things for people?
Now Netflix is free from the debt the WBD deal could have created:
Free of Warner Bros., Netflix Is a Growth Stock Once Again - AOL
Netflix’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) ambitious push to acquire key assets from Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) in late 2025 quickly turned sour. Investors feared the roughly $83 billion cash deal — priced at $27.75 per share — would saddle the streamer with massive new debt, crimping margins and...
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Plus some are speculating that Netflix might buy some of the assets Paramount may have to sell due to its debt.
It's an analysis of what is likely to occur, not a wish one way or the other.
When a Director exhibits such poor judgement, the Board has no choice but to consider that. Her personal views or politics matter not to me. Were I a Netflix shareholder and/or Board member, I would be very concerned about her clear inability to consider her activity in the midst of a strategic merger that requires Government approval.
There was no "poor judgement." They knew her views when she was asked to join the board. They knew she does interviews. The comments she made were factual and truthful. So there's no issue at all to the company or the board. Especially now that the company has left the bidding, and been paid $2.8 billion by Paramount. It's something you're making up completely. What was it she said that showed "poor judgement?" Government approval should be based on the company, not politics. People still have freedom of speech in this country.
I'd suggest the president exhibited "poor judgement" by spending $1.5 million of his own money buying debt in a company that he knew was involved in a merger that required approval by his government. But grift and corruption are nothing new to him.
And once again (screen goes all wavy, harp music plays):
Here's the key quote from Susan Rice on the Preet Bharara podcast:
Suggesting the law will be upheld and exercising her right to free speech isn’t poor judgement. And no government that isn't engaging in bribery or extortion should find her comments concerning in any way.
IF those comments could interfere with government approval of a deal, it pretty ****ing well proves her point.
Full story:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5748439-susan-rice-trump-corporations-accountability/
Dead silence on the Clinton dealings....
"The Clinton dealings" is more than a little vague. Wanna do specifics?
HBO… “The Gold Standard(!?!)” and other musings from Ellison
variety.com
Paramount’s David Ellison Addresses Warner Bros. Execs at Town Hall: CEO Says ‘Turbulent’ Deal Process Is ‘Behind Us,’ Praises HBO as ‘Gold Standard’ in TV
David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, made his first formal appearance before Warner Bros. Discovery's senior executives, talking about Paramount's pending $111 billion deal for WBD and taking about a dozen questions from the assemblage.
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