Is CNN the next Fox News?
COURIER Newsroom
Friend,
A Trump-aligned billionaire, Larry Ellison, is spearheading a bid to acquire a media conglomerate that includes CNN.
Ellison isn’t just some rich guy. He’s one of the Republican Party’s largest donors and a longtime supporter of Donald Trump.
We’ll explain how CNN could start looking a lot more like Fox News in a moment. But first — with right-wing billionaires buying up or hollowing out legacy media, supporting grassroots outlets like COURIER has never been more important.
Chip in today and help us raise $10,000 to fund our newsroom expansion before the end of February.
Calling CNN “the next Fox” isn’t melodramatic.
Look at CBS.
After Paramount took control, the tone shifted. Just this week, CBS Nightly News anchor Tony Dokoupil — yes, the guy in Walter Cronkite’s old chair — described Trump’s lie-a-minute fever dream of a State of the Union as “extraordinary” and “vintage Trump.”
Extraordinary?
That’s not neutral. That’s normalization.
And normalization is how authoritarian movements win.
When billionaires who fund Trump take control of major outlets, coverage changes. Not overnight. But punches get pulled. Lies get softened. Extremism gets framed as strategy.
And this isn’t just CBS.
The Washington Post has gutted staff and signaled it won’t confront Trump the way it once did. Media companies chasing mergers are weighing regulatory approvals against whether crossing Trump is worth it.
Meanwhile, Trump is openly talking about retribution, loyalty tests, and expanding executive power.
Put plainly:
The right is consolidating media power while Trump consolidates political power.
That’s not an accident. That’s strategic alignment.
That’s why COURIER exists.
While Trump-aligned billionaires consolidate, we’re expanding.
We just announced that COURIER is launching newsrooms in nine new states — expanding local reporting where independent coverage is disappearing fastest. And right now, we’re racing to raise $10,000 in the next 48 hours to fully fund that expansion before February ends.
If the right is scaling its media machine behind an authoritarian movement, independent journalism has to scale too.
Chip in $25 — or whatever you can — and help us meet this moment.
Thank you for standing with independent journalism — especially when it’s hardest.
— The COURIER Newsroom
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