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.

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;

The chairman of the FCC says the merger will ‘enable CBS to operate in the public interest and focus on fair, unbiased, and fact-based coverage.’

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden also question whether Skydance was involved in discussions to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert