David Ellison, an actor-turned-producer and son of centibillionaire Larry Ellison, will helm Paramount after its merger with his Skydance media company is complete.

The biggest hurdle will be overcoming the stain covering the deal itself after the concessions required to get it over the finish line.

In meeting with FCC officials, Skydance's David Ellison promised that CBS's "editorial decision-making reflects the varied ideological perspectives of American viewers."

The sell-out of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s journalistic values to commercial interests was foreshadowed in 1976, in Sidney Lumet’s and Paddy Chayefsky’s dark comedy satire Network; James Brooks’s 1987 romantic comedy Broadcast News;

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