After the 2020 election, Larry Ellison joined a call to strategize on overturning the vote for Trump

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Earlier this week, Tony Dokoupil, the newly installed anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” took a brief moment to mark the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the president of ‘whitewashing it,’” Dokoupil said while images of Trump supporters carrying banners thanking him for their pardons splashed on screen.

Dokoupil’s breathtaking both-sides framing of an attack carried out by a mob of ardent Trump followers sparked swift and widespread criticism, both inside and outside CBS News. As Status previously reported, the network has been roiled in recent days by Dokoupil’s rocky early tenure, with journalists privately and publicly questioning how an attempted coup could be reduced to a partisan dispute on the network’s air.

The coverage, however, was not only surely welcome at the Trump White House, but also highlighted a reality hovering over CBS News itself. Indeed, Dokoupil’s disgraceful framing served as a reminder that Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle co-founder who bankrolled his son’s takeover of CBS News’ parent company, Paramount, assisted Trump’s efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election.

In the days after Trump decisively lost to Joe Biden, Ellison joined a private call with the president’s allies—including Fox News host Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham—that was “focused on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote,” The Washington Post reported at the time. The call, organized by the pro-Trump group True the Vote, which promoted election disinformation, centered on whether Congress should intervene to force a “change in election results,” according to an attorney for the group.

After the 2020 election, Larry Ellison joined a call to strategize on overturning the vote for Trump and donated to election deniers. Now he controls CBS and wants CNN’s parent, raising new questions this week as his influence grows.

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[LoisB]

1. I shudder to think that I once respected him for making the Indian Wells tennis tournament

the great event that it is. Since I already saw Roger play there in person, I have no reason to ever go back.

[Chasstev365]

2. Boycott all Ellison media!

[LuvLoogie]

3. These people are megalomaniacs who find

Democracy bothersome. They are elitists who feel entitled to their every whim.

And so many would become their footmen and lick their boots for season tickets and a temporary tax cut.

[dalton99a]

4. The Ellisons are far worse than the Murdochs

[In It to Win It]

8. You can see the Murdochs coming. Their content machines are overtly partisan and ideological.

With the Ellisons, they want their ideology to blend in among mainstream content between trash reality TV and prominent scripted TV among mainstream networks, and change the "culture" of those networks in a way that people who would normally be tuned out of politics won't notice.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. It is insidious and methodical

[newdeal2]

5. He picture looks like a textbook evil CEO

He’s older than Trump - can’t wait till he is gone someday soon hopefully.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. #1 target for antitrust litigation

If not seditious conspiracy charges.

I hope the next Dem president reappoints Lina Kahn to the FTC.

[UTUSN]

7. "both-sides framing" - am calling it, "WEISS whiplash" - her first strike at 60 Minutes was for including

more of an opposing interview for balance - the balance being Stephen MILLER, no less. So her Mini-Me DOKOUPIL alternates sentences of Bit 1 vs Bit 2 and repeat to the end of the piecel.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. Old Larry really looks like a sleaze bag TV evangelist in that picture.