Paramount Skydance CEO David Elliosn is breaking his silence on the antitrust lawsuit that seeks to to halt his company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing in a New York Times op-ed that politics is at the root cause of the issue. “I believe that anyone who oversees a news organization — I am chief executive of Paramount, which owns CBS — shouldn’t put a finger on the scale, especially on matters involving his own company,” he writes. “So, when California’s attorney general, 11 other state attorneys general and, a day later, the Writers Guild of America sued to stop the deal, I stayed quiet. I quickly learned such restraint has…
