In case you missed it, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison recently decided to gift his eyebrowless nepobaby son David not one (CBS/Paramount), but two (Warner Brothers) major Hollywood studios and media empires.Truly heartwarming stuff. The acquisitions serve two purposes. One, they allow Larry's son David to pretend he's a savvy media mogul who built something meaningful. Two, they allow Larry and the Trump administration to steadily lobotomize the already-dying remnants of corporate journalism at outlets like CBS News and CNN. To accomplish this, the Ellisons hired Bari Weiss, a "contrarian" troll blogger, with no experience in broadcast TV, to run CBS News. Weiss' previous experience ranged from writing terrible opinion columns for the New York Times, to running a clickbait website that routinely just made up bullshit and propped up Trumpism.Weiss was hired to "modernize" CBS and make lazy right-wing agitprop go viral, but she's largely proven incompetent; CBS News just saw its…
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