David Ellison attends same dinner at White House that CNN was barred from
MS NOW was also denied access to the state dinner welcoming Xi Jinping.
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Nothing to see here, just Paramount Skydance (and soon-to-be, presumably, Warner Bros. Discovery) CEO dining at a White House State Dinner with Supreme Court justices and business leaders while the news network he will soon own is blocked from covering it. Yes, CNN’s press access to the White House appears to be touch-and-go; after a judge said yesterday morning that the outlet’s access had to be reinstated, it wasn’t until the afternoon that reporters were actually able to get into the press pool. However, CNN reports that two of its reporters (as well as some from MS NOW) were blocked from attending the event on Thursday night.
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