Kara Swisher Dishes On Threat to Leave CNN, Rips Journalists Still Using X, and Unloads on Jeff Bezos
Power Lines with Oliver Darcy and Jon PassantinoShow Notes
Kara Swisher joined us at the Status Summit in New York for a candid conversation on a wide array of topics. Swisher, a veteran journalist and co-host of “Pivot,” told us how CNN executives have responded to her threats to leave the network, should the Ellisons gain control of it. She also said Jeff Bezos has ruined The Washington Post and weighed in with her brutally honest thoughts on various technology executives.
0:00 Intro
2:00 Kara Swisher’s Podcast Empire & Scott Galloway-Free Summer on Pivot
6:25 Maria Bartiromo’s Firing from Fox News
8:30 Should Vox Host a Presidential Debate?
9:18 Did Jeff Bezos Destroy the Washington Post?
13:48 Why Kara Won’t Work for a David Ellison-owned CNN
18:55 The Lawsuit Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
22:03 Bashing Tech Companies for Giving In to “Lake America”
24:00 “F*** You”: Kara’s Message to Journalists on X
26:28 Why Don’t More Journalists Speak Like Kara?
31:18 Lightning Round: Describing Tech Execs in One Word Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More from Power Lines with Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino
On today’s episode:
In a special episode of Power Lines, we publish exclusive audio from a stunning all-hands meeting in which Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor, Shayndi Raice, unleashed a lengthy tirade against her own CBS News journalists.
After completing his acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Ellison is facing questions about his relationship with Donald Trump and his plans for CNN. Jon shares what happened when he pressed Ellison directly on the Paramount lot, and Oliver reports on Anderson Cooper’s pointed questions for his new boss at an internal company town hall.
The future of CNN is coming into focus…at least for now. David Ellison has opened talks with Mark Thompson about extending his tenure as CNN’s chief. Oliver and Jon break down what the move signals to employees inside the network, what it could mean for CNN’s direction under Ellison, and where it leaves Bari Weiss, both now and down the road.
The anonymous source behind one of the stories that the White House used to justify its press ban was none other than JD Vance himself. We detail our exclusive reporting and get into the latest developments on Donald Trump’s war against the media.