Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/david-elli... CNN reporters were not amused by David Ellison's op-ed in the NYT.
![The piece was "insulting," one CNNer told Status, adding, “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS. You can’t just write an op-ed and erase that.” Another CNNer said it was obvious to them Ellison "says whatever is best for him to get the merger through."
"The thing David Ellison seems to be missing is the wild mismanagement and disrespect that Bari [Weiss] has displayed at '60' and CBS," a third CNNer told Status. "These people just simply do not know what they are doing. We see it. And we don’t want it here."
Indeed, several CNNers said that Ellison's stewardship of CBS News had caused them to lose confidence in his ability to run a news organization and sour on his repeated assurances about respecting the independence of newsrooms. In The Times essay, Ellison wrote, "I understand that promises from an executive in the middle of a merger invite skepticism. So judge us by the year we just had."
But the last year at CBS News has been an unmitigated disaster. Most notably, Ellison allowed his handpicked news chief to take a sledgehammer to "60 Minutes," firing multiple correspondents and senior executives from television news' most prestigious broadcast—in most of the cases, without ever stating a cause for the dismissals. Beyond that, Weiss' tenure has been defined by her expunging those she is not ideologically aligned with, presiding over the worst ratings of the century for flagship programs like the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS Mornings," establishing a cozier relationship with an overtly corrupt White House, and sending employee morale cratering to astonishing lows.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicybrw5xm7wnrleduxjtlfwlrcvjzs7qwwjijswwlluzh5x67iadi)
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David Ellison: The Critics Are Wrong About My Politics www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o... Are they so wrong ? I’m thinking of 60 Minutes firstly and that is more than enough for me- and, it’s not your politics per se - more the character you have shown us or lack thereof
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal (Gift Article)
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u... Paul Weiss epitomizes big time greed - praying that karma is a thing and for their bottom line to tank spectacularly 🔻⬇️🔻
Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.
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🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u... - I bet Trump has pocketed it or is in the process of pocketing it- his name on anything Federal should read as an invitation for graffiti -
Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (Gift Article)
“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”
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How a Grieving Trump Decided to Back Lindsey Graham’s Sister for Senate www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u... Trump “grieving”- 🤣🤣- seriously, NYT?? That is not a feeling on trump’s emotional bandwidth -
How a Grieving Trump Decided to Back Lindsey Graham’s Sister for Senate (Gift Article)
The president initially backed a little-known congressman. Then he talked to Gov. Henry McMaster and Ms. Graham herself.
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Why can't the entirety of the US media figure out if McConnell is alive or dead?
It was never about the debt. It was always a heist to help the rich.
Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.
Felon47 & Hegseth cancelled an event honoring women veterans so they held their own! Women veterans earned their place through service & sacrifice! Women who served deserve respect & recognition, not political optics! #WomenVeterans #HonorOurVeterans #Veterans #ViVaHerAlliance #SheShed
Pack up your lawn chairs, everyone—peak grifting has been achieved. I don't see how this moral dogshit gutter con could be under-dug. I apologize to the grimy rinds of excrement and detritus that litter the Earth for ever having called Trump MERELY scum.
Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders and investors.
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Well done to both ABC and NBC for refusing to air the disgusting MAGA tyrant’s bullshit propaganda speech tonight, credit where credit is due, now do better at reporting his daily destructive murderous treasonous crime spree.
ABC News, NBC News and CNN all said Thursday afternoon that they will NOT carry Trump‘s primetime address tonight on their broadcast networks — only on their respective streaming sites. CBS News has yet to reveal its coverage plans.
ABC, NBC And CNN Won't Carry Trump's Speech On Their Linear Networks
President Trump is expected to focus on election security in a primetime speech July 16, but networks appear reluctant to give him a platform.
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I will not be turning on the news tonight. I hope that mango faced loon gets the worst ratings ever.
TRUMP DIARRHEA OUTBREAK: Cyclosporiasis cases are surging now across 40+ states, a severe diarrhea outbreak linked to contaminated produce. Reports indicate Trump admin CDC changes made Cyclospora surveillance optional and restructured the parasitic diseases division.
So when Barrack Obama was running everything in 2016, and Trump won, the election was fair? But when Donald Trump was running everything in 2020, and Trump lost, the election was rigged and stolen? How does that make sense? Oh, it doesn't! It's a lie.
When did all this daily drama, mania, insanity and lunacy start? Oh yeah, it was January 20, 2025. Every day more corruption, threats, arrests, firings, shootings, indictments, scandals, and power grabs. The other guy was old. This guy is an old, psychotic, malignant narcissist.
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b... yet another example of trump administration assholery - and it all falls on the American taxpayer to fund this corrupt vindictive administration. No paywall
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Protections for Endangered Species www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c.... Just add this on to the ever growing long list of evil acts committed non stop by trump and his confederacy of assholes - no paywall
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The move ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could open up crucial habitats to drilling and mining.
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For a guy who claims he wants free and fair elections, he sure is trying to do everything he can to cheat and rig midterms. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AwLHTFVH1RHa...
Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act — Votebeat
Trump fired Election Assistance Commission members Thomas Hicks, Benjamin Hovland, and Christy McCormick, leaving the federal election agency without a quorum.
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Four weeks. Mitch McConnell has been completely out of public view, hospitalized since mid-June with zero transparency from his office. Is he alive? Brain dead? Recovering? Yet DC reporters can’t be bothered to demand real answers or even basic updates. The media’s selective silence is deafening.