Jack, it may be one of the world's most famous names in news, but not even CNN can escape the realities of the news media today—being absorbed into a new mega-media corporation with the Warner Bros. Discovery merger and coming under the influence of a right-wing billionaire.

Billionaire John Malone has sat on the board of the conservative CATO Institute and was a major donor to Trump's inauguration. He sits on the board of Warner Bros.Discovery and he thinks it's time that CNN drops its "liberal bias" and becomes more like Fox News. In late 2021, when the company was still owned by AT&T but scheduled to become part of Warner Bros. Discovery, Malone said in an interview with CNBC:

“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

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