Kara Swisher Says She Refuses to Work for Paramount If It Takes over CNN as They Don’t Respect Journalists

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SWISHER: "Well, it’s interesting, because they’ve been calling me, they've been very nice, they're like, 'Hey, Kara, good show with Matt Bellamy.' They’re doing a lot of friendly-friendly with me right now, which is like, too bad. It’s not going to work. It's not gonna happen for you, as I say. They — I don’t think they’ll be good owners. I don’t. I think they’ve already shown several times, including editorial choices, which Scott knows more about than I, though I know a lot, Scott, that they have no interest in journalism. And I refuse to work for an organization that doesn’t respect journalists. And I don’t mean not cutting. Listen, I got out of Jones because I understood the costs were too high and I could make a lot more money if I did it a more efficient, more digital way, and I think a lot of the legacy organizations have been really stubborn in terms of understanding what’s going on. That’s not my issue. There has to be cuts. The costs are out of line with the audience, right? That’s just the way it is. That's not how you do it. It’s a basic, like, disdain for it as anything useful. There’s not a way to reform it except for hiring someone who isn’t a journalist.”