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NetflixrCOs decision to walk away from its $83bn bid for Warner Bros
Discovery (WBD) has left some staffers working at CBS News and CNN
panicking about the future as the two top-tier news operations come
under the same roof.

With Paramount Skydance emerging as the winning bidder, a deal that
still requires the approval of WBD shareholders and government
regulators, they fear the merging of the two networks rCo and, with it,
the potential for a significant amount of job cuts. Some CNN employees
are also nervous about ParamountrCOs Trump-friendly ownership and
leadership enacting ideologically driven programming changes at the
network, with particular concern about the specter of the CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, possibly getting a significant role.

Weiss, a conservative commentator turned media entrepreneur with no
previous television industry experience, has had an uneven tenure at CBS
since she was appointed editor-in-chief last October. Her path to the
job was paved by concessions that David Ellison and his Skydance Media
made to gain the support of Trump-picked regulators to acquire Paramount.

rCLA Paramount-WBD merger is a disaster for the people who work at both companies, and if Bari Weiss takes control of CNN, it will be the end of
the global network Ted Turner founded,rCY one concerned CNN producer rCo who was not authorized to comment rCo told the Guardian. rCLI donrCOt think thatrCOs
hyperbolic.rCY

Turner, a billionaire media entrepreneur, revolutionized TV news when he founded the 24-hour, all-news channel in 1980.

A second CNN staffer had a more measured reaction, saying that rCLbecause
CNN is so big and makes so much money, it was always going to attract
the EllisonsrCY.

Multiple CBS News staffers who were not authorized to speak to the media resorted to curse words after reading the news. rCLFuck, fuck, fuck,rCY said one producer at the network. rCLWell, fuck,rCY said another CBS News staffer.

A third CBS News staffer said they expected their department to be axed
if the network is merged with CNN and duplicative services are cut, as
is standard for media mergers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/27/cbs-news-cnn-paramount-warner-bros-employees
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