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What Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros Discovery would mean for news and TV

NPR's David Folkenflik asks former CBS executive vice president and former CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein about the recently approved merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.

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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.
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