{"id":995795,"date":"2026-03-02T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995795"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:36:43","slug":"cnn-to-turn-pro-maga-ceo-asks-devastated-staff-not-to-panic-dont-jump-to-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/cnn-to-turn-pro-maga-ceo-asks-devastated-staff-not-to-panic-dont-jump-to-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN to turn pro-MAGA? CEO asks \u2018devastated\u2019 staff not to panic \u2013 \u2018don\u2019t jump to conclusions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount signed a $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery on Friday \u2014 handing news channel CNN over to \u2018MAGA-friendly\u2019 David Ellison, the son of multi-billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The massive leadership shakeup has triggered speculation that the news platform (often decried as \u201cfake news\u201d by US President Donald Trump) will now alter its reporting style. And so, CEO Mark Thompson sought to assuage staff fears about an uncertain future on Friday, urging them to avoid \u201cjumping to conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount signed a $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery on Friday \u2014 handing news channel CNN over to \u2018MAGA-friendly\u2019 David Ellison, the son of multi-billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The massive leadership shakeup has triggered speculation that the news platform (often decried as \u201cfake news\u201d by US President Donald Trump) will now alter its reporting style. And so, CEO Mark Thompson sought to assuage staff fears about an uncertain future on Friday, urging them to avoid \u201cjumping to conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}