Christiane Amanpour tore into CNN's new owner — and knew she had to quit

When John Dickerson announced he was leaving CBS in October 2025, it was less than a month after David Ellison took control of Paramount, CBS’s parent, and appointed Bari Weiss to overhaul the news division.Weiss was, more or less, an opinion writer with no television news experience. Evening news anchor Dickerson, a CBS fixture for 16 years, said at the time he would be gone by year’s end.Everyone in the media business understood what it meant. The people who embodied the old CBS News were in danger of losing their jobs. Dickerson packed up before he would presumably be told to clean out his desk.Now it’s happening again, almost a year to the day. On Monday, Christiane Amanpour announced she is leaving CNN after 43 years, just weeks after Ellison’s Skydance closed its takeover of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.Her statement said she was leaving after “many months of...