The joke is on woke CBS News execs as new execs considering blowing the place up
CBS News — the once-prestigious “Tiffany Network” built by giants like Edward R.Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace — is the latest media institution to succumb to the bizarre spectacle of full-on wokeness.That was proven by a leaked tape of CBS’s fake-news execs idiotically rebuking an actual real journalist doing his job.“CBS Mornings” anchor Tony Dokoupil got into trouble because he pressed the author of a one-sided, anti-Israel polemic, Ta-Nehisi Coates, about his warped, historically inaccurate views on the Middle East conflict.It’s another example of how challenging someone like Coates — who is questioning Israel’s right to defend itself even on the one-year anniversary of the Oct.
7, 2023, massacre — is verboten in modern journalism these days.What is less public is how all this weirdness is impacting CBS’s future as an ongoing business, and most important, its pending sale to Skydance, an independent studio run by movie producer David Ellison of “Top Gun: Maverick” fame.David’s dad, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, provides much of the money behind the deal and from what I gather, he’s not too happy about his latest acquisition.If you don’t know Larry, here’s a primer: He’s one of the world’s richest men, and one of the most pro-Israel executives in corporate America — he’s buds with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.Let’s just say the people at Skydance and the Ellisons read the newspapers (particularly The Post, which I know for a fact).They are powerless to do anything about what’s happening at CBS for now; the $28 billion deal to buy the network’s parent Paramount from the controlling Redstone family doesn’t close until sometime in the spring.But they won’t be powerless for much longer.As one person who knows all the players at CBS’s new owners told me: “They’re thinking about blowing the place up.”What exactly “blowing the place up” means, no one knows for sure.
Will it result ...