David Ellison breaks silence on Paramount-WBD merger fight, CNN insiders don’t buy ‘lip service’ about network

Paramount CEO David Ellison believes that opposition to his planned Warner Bros. merger isn’t truly about market share but rather whether he "can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN." Unfortunately for Ellison, much of the distrust is coming from inside the house. In a striking New York Times guest essay published on Tuesday , Ellison wrote that others have attempted to tell his story while he remained silent because the head of a news organization "shouldn’t put a finger on the scale," but