Kara Swisher to ditch CNN ASAP in wake of Paramount-WBD settlement: Fk these guys!

Podcaster and CNN contributor Kara Swisher isn’t mincing words about her feelings in the wake of Paramount’s settlement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta.“F–k these guys!” she said on the Tuesday episode of her “Pivot” podcast, adding that she plans to end her work with CNN as soon as possible.The exclamation came a day after Bonta agreed to drop his suit blocking Paramount’s merger with CNN parent company Warner Bros.Discovery, with Paramount agreeing to a minimum number of annual film releases, among other steps.“It’s only a few months, right?” Swisher said, looking to the prospect of Paramount CEO David Ellison beginning his reign at CNN.“I’m just — I just can’t.

I just, I thought like I was trying to figure out ways I could work with them in some like licensing way.But then I thought, f–k these guys! I don’t want to work for them.

I just don’t,” she continued.“I got too much to do with you, Scott Galloway,” she added, addressing her contributor on her popular podcast.He offered Swisher a testing rejoinder, saying: “Kara, let me give you a little insight scoop here. “I think there’s a decent likelihood that when you show up to whoever it is you show up to at CNN and say, I want out of my contract, they jump up and say, ‘Congratulations, no problem.’”Swisher vowed in June to exit CNN if the Paramount-WBD merger went through, calling Ellison and his dad, billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, “incompetent.” Ellison père, a close ally of President Trump’s, provided financial backing for the merger.Swisher’s Tuesday tirade came as fears are growing within CNN that Paramount will implement sweeping layoffs once the merger is complete, as The Post reported.“Bloodbath coming, including at CNN,” a TV exec said.“That’s the next big step — slashing and burning.”Left-leaning staffers at the cable news network are also wary of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who’s shaken up t...