{"id":30353,"date":"2025-08-15T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=30353"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:59:32","slug":"israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=30353","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Israel\u2019s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com\/p\/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1300612&amp;post_id=171048350&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=x24y&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\"><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison\u2014the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison\u2014has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Ellison, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/record-53-8-million-raised-for-idf-soldiers-at-beverly-hills-gala\/\" rel=\"\">largest<\/a> private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.<\/p>\n<p>David has already announced significant changes at CBS, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/skydance-david-ellison-fcc-ensure-cbs-varied-ideological-perspectives-1236464906\/\" rel=\"\">promising<\/a> \u201cunbiased\u201d news coverage and \u201cvaried ideological perspectives,\u201d which are widely understood to signal a shift toward right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Worse still, Bari Weiss, a journalist with a long history of zealous pro-Israel advocacy, is being considered as the network\u2019s new ombudsman, shaping its political direction, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0f1ce3d6-35bc-461f-9685-13e2dfddb08d\" rel=\"\">precisely<\/a> because of her \u201cpro-Israel stance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MintPress News examines Ellison\u2019s close ties to both Trump and Israel, Weiss\u2019s extensive career as Israel\u2019s most vocal supporter in the U.S., and what this means for the future of free and diverse speech in America.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}