“The News Is Broken”: Ex-CNN Host Warns Of Potential Pro-Trump State Media With Paramount -WBD Merger; Noah Wyle, IATSE Chief & Others Push For Federal Film/TV Tax Credit

“The news is broken, we may not be able to put the pieces back together,” former CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta told a packed Burbank City Hall today, warning of the rise of entertainment industry oligarchs and “media domination.”

“We need to talk about busting up big media,” Acosta insisted, “this is not America what we’re seeing now.”

Citing a “danger to our democracy,” Acosta called Donald Trump’s attacks on the media to be “an assault on our freedom of speech  …taking us down the road of Putin and China to state-controlled media” An old and constant thorn in the thin-skinned Trump’s paw, Acosta certainly has something to say about David Ellison’s $111 billion pending purchase of Warner Bros Discovery – the owners of CNN.

Taking a swing at “partisan hacks” running CBS News and the probability of more job losses like we saw today, and

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