The Media Mix

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Claire Atkinson — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:31:03 GMT

The Keiretsu of Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery-TikTok-Oracle-RedBird.

Claire Atkinson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:23:22 GMT

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The proposed $111 billion deal to turn Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is poised to create the world’s biggest and most powerful news and information giant. A host of global outlets from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, joint venture CNN Arabic connected to TikTok has broad implications for our perceptions of the world.

“We’ve never seen a company that combined the strength in so called traditional media as PSky [Paramount Skydance] will have going forward with Oracle, the presence in social media, that’s just never happened,” said Jon Miller, chief executive of TPG-backed investment firm Integrated Media. Miller also ran AOL and was on the board of ad giant Interpublic Group. He knows exactly the power such an entity will have in targeting advertising based on viewing data. “It’s training and targeting data in a way that we’ve never seen before,” he adds, suggesting it could be, “the most culturally influential company ever created.”

Let’s look at the kind of scale that the Larry Ellison-funded new entity might be privy to:

Warner Town Hall: Management sounds shell shocked about the Paramount deal. Do they really want to sell?

Claire Atkinson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:16:24 GMT

For guys who just made a dream deal to sell their company for an ungodly sum that will make them rich beyond their wildest dreams, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels sounded downbeat at the sudden outcome that they are being swallowed whole by Paramount Skydance.

Speaking to staff mid-morning on Friday in a Town Hall, Zaslav went out of his way to praise CNN and the network’s coverage of Minnesota, presumably referencing the coverage of the shooting deaths of two ICE protestors, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Claire Atkinson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:45:56 GMT

Warner’s “Friends” will become part of Paramount Skydance.

As CNNers swing through the doors of Hudson Yards this morning they’ll be choking on their matcha lattes at the armageddon that awaits them after last night’s bombshell news that Paramount Skydance has won the bidding for their owner Warner Bros. Discovery. They’ll hear more today from the Warner CEO David Zaslav at a Town Hall.

Just three months ago I wrote that Warner had accepted a winning bid from Netflix and that CNN would be transferred into a separately spun-off venture carrying most of the company’s debt. Things change fast in the media business. Charlie Gasparino, the Fox Business anchor who has been covering every twist of this deal, seemed to confirm everyone’s assumptions that Bari Weiss, the controversial 41 year-old in charge at CBS News, is poised to run CNN too. CNN’s current boss Mark Thompson told staff in a memo to not “jump to conclusions until we know more.”

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Claire Atkinson — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:56:11 GMT

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