First reported late Tuesday by Status’s Oliver Darcy and the so-called media reporting class, liberal journalist Paula Reid is set to quit her job “in a few months” as CNN chief legal affairs correspondent because of “concerns” and she has about Paramount Skydance’s pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery and, thus, has exhibited “discomfort” at working for those dirty, supposed MAGA TV tycoons in David Ellison and Bari Weiss.
Another shoe dropped Wednesday as Variety’s Brian Steinberg scooped that Reid would be taking her biased, partisan talents over to MS NOW for a similar position.
Darcy gushed his former colleague (which he didn’t care to mention) “was everywhere across CNN’s programming” on Tuesday amid the final day of Supreme Court opinions, exhibiting why she’s been “one of the network’s most trusted legal voices and guiding audiences through the legal battles and constitutional questions ignited by the Trump administration.”
But alas, he shared “ the 43-year-old star correspondent” has chosen not to renew her contract because of “candid conversations with CNN executives in which she has raised concerns about Paramount's pending $111 billion acquisition of CNN parentco Warner Bros. Discovery” and “discomfort with the takeover and the uncertainty it has cast over CNN's future.”
It was her Darcy made the connection to Reid’s job prior to CNN:
Reid spent a decade at CBS News where she began her career as an on-air correspondent for the “CBS Evening News” anchored by Scott Pelley. I’m told she has privately expressed concern about the sweeping changes implemented at the network since Ellison took over.
“Ultimately, Reid decided the uncertainty surrounding the merger was too great and I’m told that she concluded it wasn’t worth rolling the dice on an organization facing such an unsettled future,” he insisted, which revealed the thin-skinned, viewpoint-averse nature of so many of these partisan tools, Reid included.
Along with a public declaration from CNN documentary host Kara Swisher and a reported promise from AC360 host Anderson Cooper, Darcy predicted Reid “is unlike to be the last” CNN journalist to quit the network because of their refusal to work for the Ellisons and/or with Weiss.
Darcy said “a number of other journalists at the network are privately weighing their future” because “many...have watched in horror as Ellison has allowed Weiss to upend CBS News and have little interest in working under her.”
Yet again, these liberal hacks are acting as though Weiss moving a network two ticks to the center (while keeping much of the same, liberal themes in its reporting) as though it were a war crime.
Steinberg’s framing of Reid’s MS NOW move was comical, posing it as some bastion of journalism in contrast to Weiss’s CBS: “MS NOW, meanwhile, has put a stronger emphasis on harder news and enterprise journalism under its president, Rebecca Kutler.”
Back during said CBS days, Reid most infamously made herself the center of the D.C. press corps universe whenever she’d spar in 2020 with then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. On one such occasion, McEnany schooled her by demanding “we’re not having a debate on a cable news channel right now.”
And a few weeks prior, Reid set off another tussle with McEnany by declaring Trump had “intentionally misle[d] the American people” about the deadly nature of the coronavirus.
During the same election period, she helped CBS News dismiss Hunter Biden’s laptop outright and suggest it might be entirely made up by nefarious actors.
Shifting to her CNN days, Reid has been a reliable D.C. liberal.
Whether it’s insisting democracy was being undermined because Fani Willis was taken to court for sleeping with one of her fellow prosecutors, stating reporters were crying over Trump’s first attorney general pick, describing Jimmy Carter as “courageous” in the hostage crisis, or defending transgenderism, Reid will feel right at home on MS NOW where she doesn’t have to acknowledge the fair and legitimate existence of tens of millions outside her political bubble.
