Kara Swisher draws a line in the sand about working with the Ellison family.
The podcast host, who recently signed a deal for CNN original series Kara Swisher wants to live foreverindicated that it would sever ties with the network if its parent company, Warner Bros., was sold. Discovery, to David Ellison’s Paramount.
“They have no interest in journalism,” Swisher said at Syracuse University’s awards ceremony Monday in Washington, D.C. “I refuse to work for an organization that doesn’t respect journalists.”
Swisher is a CNN contributor who appears on the airwaves but whose primary platform, With Kara Swisheris a podcast distributed by Vox Media. The journalist has built her brand on reaching out to and criticizing the oligarchs. Swisher signed an on-air deal with CNN in 2023 as a panelist and contributor.
“I started my own media organization where I make a lot of money, so I don’t have to. So, for me, to stand up and say ‘I’m not working with you, I’m not doing this’ and it’s not worth it to me,” Swisher added.
The Syracuse event, the Toner Awards for Political Reporting, was hosted by Scott MacFarlane, a former CBS News journalist who left the news organization amid a restructuring prompted by Ellison’s choice of editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss. MacFarlane reached out to left-wing influencer outlet MeidasTouch.
“I spent a lot of time with Larry Ellison, and he’s a terrible person,” Swisher, at the event, told MacFarlane of the Oracle technology billionaire.
The Ellison family hasn’t been Swisher’s only target lately. The journalist also tried to entice Jeff Bezos to sell, to no avail The Washington Post While the Amazon billionaire restructures that paper and cuts hundreds of journalists in his latest axis. “The problem is that Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to sell it because he sees it as a tool now,” Swisher said in March last year on ABC. The view.
Meanwhile, CNN was running home ads for Kara Swisher wants to live foreverwhich premieres in April.
