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Liberal NCS contributor Kara Swisher doubled down on her vow to leave her network if Paramount is profitable with its bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery.
Speaking Monday at Syracuse University’s Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting celebration, Swisher decried tech billionaires like Oracle founder Larry Ellison and his son, new Paramount proprietor David Ellison, shopping for media corporations.
She turned to the occasion’s emcee, Scott MacFarlane, the previous CBS News correspondent who introduced earlier within the day that he had joined the far-left outlet MeidasTouch, telling him, “Good move.”
“You’ll love it out here. It’s much better,” Swisher instructed MacFarlane. “You don’t want to work for the Ellisons. I’ve spent a lot of time with Larry Ellison, and he’s a terrible person.”
NCS contributor Kara Swisher doubled down on her vow to leave the network if Paramount efficiently takes over Warner Bros. Discovery. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Vox Media)
Swisher was requested by Syracuse University’s Margaret Talev whether or not her feedback from December had been a “sure thing” or if she may ever discover a manner to stick with the network with David Ellison as her new boss.
“I don’t see how,” Swisher responded, including that Paramount leaders have contacted her.
“It’s interesting because they’ve been calling me. They’ve been very nice. ‘Hey Kara, good show with Matt Belloni.’ They’re doing a lot of friendly friendly with me right now, which is like — too bad. It’s not going to work. It’s not going to happen for you, as I say,” Swisher mentioned.
“I don’t think they’ll be good owners. I don’t,” she continued. “I think they’ve already shown several times, including editorial choices, which Scott knows a lot… that they have no interest in journalism. And I refuse to work for an organization that doesn’t respect journalists.”
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Kara Swisher decried tech billionaires taking over media corporations like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who has a monetary stake in Paramount’s looming takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The liberal journalist went on to say she would not “have to” keep at NCS since she based her personal media group that is been profitable.
“So for me to stand up to say, ‘I’m not working for you hacks. I’m just not doing it. And it’s just not worth it to me’… I do a lot better direct to consumer kind of thing,” Swisher added.
Paramount didn’t reply to Fox News Digital‘s requests for remark. NCS declined remark.
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Liberals have expressed outrage over the prospects of the Ellisons, who’ve a comfortable relationship with President Donald Trump, taking over NCS on account of Paramount’s $111 billion bid to purchase the network’s dad or mum firm. The youthful Ellison ruffled business feathers when he appointed Bari Weiss because the editor-in-chief of CBS News and bought her digital outlet The Free Press.
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