The thing about oligarchs is that they can essentially throw infinite money at any prospective hostile takeover, because the corrupt government they're in bed with can simply give that oligarch whatever he needs to extract that amount of money from the corrupted economic system.
Paramount wants not just the movie parts of Warner. They want the whole thing, including per TFS, the "cable TV assets." That includes CNN.
Paramount wants to acquire CNN and then change its reporting angle on the current administration.
The Ellison's want to run CNN the way the Murdoch's run Fox.
He already exerts control over CBS the stooge in charge, Bari Weiss https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u... [nbcnews.com]