The Paramount Skydance mega-merger with Warner Bros. But Paramount CEO David Ellison, son of the billionaire founder of Oracle and Trump ally Larry Ellison, says it’s really all about one thing: CNN. The thought of someone who isn’t a hardcore progressive controlling the fake news outlet gives Dems the chills. Great news organizations like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle. So “when California’s attorney general, 11 other state attorneys general and, a day later, the Writers Guild of America sued to stop the deal, I stayed quiet.