Larry Ellison is a tech titan and a Trump-aligned Republican. He and his son (apparently a Biden donor) are attempting to buy Warner Brothers, which controls, among other things, CNN. They already succeeded in purchasing CBS and are making it a more Trump-friendly network. They may also be in line to own some or all of Tik Tok once the details of Trump’s deal with the Chinese are known.
If you can’t beat them, buy them; that’s a page out of the Viktor Orban playbook. With Musk already controlling Sewer and Disney and the WaPo apparently neutered, the only major media that haven’t capitulated to Trump are the NYT and NBC, the former of which has been sued for $15 billion. More on that tomorrow.