David Ellison Can’t Be Trusted with CNN

Ellison hopes you aren't paying attention as his handpicked CBS News boss directs reporters to add “facts” that did not exist, and fires talent whose only flaw was a commitment to the truth.

Jennifer Schulze is a longtime Chicago journalist. She’s on Bluesky @newsjennifer.bsky.social. Subscribe to her Substack, Indistinct Chatter.

The blindness of the very rich is on full display in David Ellison’s New York Times op-ed pitching the mogul’s effort to buy CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros Discovery.

Ellison begins by saying, “I believe that an…