CNN CEO Mark Thompson asks staff not to panic over potential Paramount merger

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CNN CEO Mark Thompson asks staff not to panic over potential Paramount merger
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That being said, the few people who work there who have already spoken to the press are understandably spooked.

, it would be understandable for the employees at both enterprises to be freaking out, even just a little bit. Paramount already has its own streaming app, so employees at HBO Max may feel less secure than they did yesterday.

Likewise, given what the Ellison-owned company has already done to, working at CNN probably feels a bit different today than it did a week ago. But CNN CEO Mark Thompson has offered his staff a slightly consolatory message: “Don’t jump to conclusions.” “Despite all the speculation you’ve read during this process, I’d suggest that you don’t jump to conclusions about the future until we know more,” Thompson wrote in an email to staff yesterday evening . “And secondly let’s not forget our duty to our audience. We’re still near the start of what is already an incredibly newsy year at home and abroad, one that will culminate with critical U.S. midterm elections and who knows what else.” Of course, some of that staff is jumping to reasonable conclusions. “A Paramount WBD merger is a disaster for the people who work at both companies, and if Bari Weiss takes control of CNN, it will be the end of the global network Ted Turner founded,” one anonymous CNN producer toldin an article published this morning. “I don’t think that’s hyperbolic.” It’s not just the CNN side of the merger that has misgivings. Other quotesThe sale of Warner Bros. Discovery does still need a good amount of regulatory approval to move forward. While the Trump administration and its cronies have been clear that they

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