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\nParamount Skydance CEO David Elliosn is breaking his silence on the antitrust lawsuit that seeks to to halt his company\u2019s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing in a New York Times <\/em>op-ed that politics is at the root cause of the issue.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI believe that anyone who oversees a news organization \u2014 I am chief executive of Paramount, which owns CBS \u2014 shouldn\u2019t put a finger on the scale, especially on matters involving his own company,\u201d he writes. \u201cSo, when California\u2019s attorney general, 11 other state attorneys general and, a day later, the Writers Guild of America sued to stop the deal, I stayed quiet. I quickly learned such restraint has costs. While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEllison writes that he believes his pending ownership of CNN is behind the suit. It hasn\u2019t helped that President Trump has said cited CNN repeatedly when discussing the deal, though Ellison does not mention the President in his column.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI believe this fight is not really about market share\u2026 I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases: the news. The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner\u2019s CNN. There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions,\u201d Ellison writes. \u201cUnfortunately, I can\u2019t give anyone a view into my heart and mind, but I can share this: I have regularly voted for candidates of both parties; I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal, just like most Americans; and when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend their newsrooms to my views. I believe that news should be based on facts and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe goes on to repeat comments he has made elsewhere, about news divisions needing to be fair and down the middle, reflecting a wide range of points of view.<\/p>\n

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\n\t \u201cAnd it requires independence. Our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve \u2014 not to any party or cause,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tEllison goes on to reiterate the commitments that he is making to keep production flowing if the deal goes through, and notes the competition from tech giants that has battered legacy Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA deal this size is lived out in public, and I have felt every bit of that,\u201d he writes. \u201cI don\u2019t ask to be taken at my word; the commitments are in writing, and the work will be on screens where anyone can judge it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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