"I always thought they were going to use the lever of FCC approval. I'd be astonished if they don't walk in there and go like, 'Hey, nice show you got here, it'd be a shame if something happened to it.' I think the kinds of changes that you're seeing at CBS are in the offing, though he argued the changes could be more drastic as the president has more of a personal grudge against CNN."
"I wouldn't be surprised if one of these media properties gets handed over to Trump Inc. that Donald Jr. had his hands in. Look, those guys run a drone company and as far as I know they're not either one of them real aeronautics guys."
"CNN is too big a prize for them to risk handing it over to news people or people who are going to let it just operate. So I never thought Netflix [had a chance]."
Jon Stewart expressed concerns about David Ellison's potential $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, characterizing it as corruption given Ellison's Trump support. Stewart predicted significant changes to CNN following FCC approval, comparing them to recent CBS alterations under Paramount Skydance ownership. He suggested Trump could use FCC approval as leverage to influence editorial decisions at CNN, potentially resulting in changes more drastic than those at CBS due to Trump's personal grievances with the network. Stewart further speculated that Trump family members, including Donald Trump Jr., could eventually gain control of media properties from Ellison, drawing parallels to their involvement in unrelated business ventures.
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