Matt Wolfson argues that the Ellison family’s rapid consolidation of media power under Trump has transformed major Western outlets into vehicles for pro-"Israel" propaganda. This shift is part of a broader system in which concentrated capital, political access, and Zionist networks reshape public discourse while narrowing real debate.
Of the many head-spinning shifts that Donald Trump’s Administration has orchestrated since he took office in January 2025, arguably the least noticed and most significant is the assumption of unrivalled power in Western media of the Ellisons: the Jewish Zionist family which is the biggest single private donor to the IOF. Larry Ellison, who is 81, has been a significant player in technology and politics since the 1970s, when, with early career support from the CIA, he founded Oracle. Oracle has since become a leader in AI, Ellison has since become known for befriending Donald Trump, and, since Trump’s second election to the presidency, Ellison’s rise has been the stuff of which monopolist dreams are made, on a scale that takes the breath away.
In these fifteen months, Ellison used his company, Skydance Media, to purchase Paramount, which includes CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, and Comedy Central. He is following this up with the purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy American production company which includes CNN, the station which pioneered the 24-hour news cycle during the First Gulf War. In tandem with both of these moves, Ellison has also assumed a major stake in TikTok, either the third or the fifth most popular social media platform worldwide.
This shift amounts to something more dangerous than it seems on paper. America had, as of January 20, 2025, five television news outlets which, whatever their domestic political biases, were understood to report news about foreign policy relatively objectively: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and PBS. It had two newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, which were understood to do the same. What “objective” in this context means is not accuracy; it means each channel or newspaper gave at least some simulation of presenting both sides of foreign conflicts in areas like the Middle East. These outlets would never have been so objective, for example, as to refer to the deaths of Fatima Ftouni, Ali Shoaib and Mohamad Ftouni as what they clearly were, a murder and an imperialist crime; but they might at least conceivably, like The Guardian did in England, have run pieces or reports questioning whether "Israel" violated international law by attacking members of the press.
One or two of the more independent creative entertainment franchises, for example, Warner Bros., take similarly open-minded lines in at least some of the content they produce regarding minority cultures or other countries. Today, 15 months into Donald Trump’s presidency, this list of 8 relatively honest brokers has dwindled by 4—as Warner Bros., CNN, and CBS have been or are being purchased by the Ellisons; and The Washington Post’s foreign correspondents’ desk has been defenestrated by its owner Jeff Bezos not long after an agent of the Ellisons expressed interest in buying it.
The result of these buys is a diminishing number of perspectives available to America’s citizens. This means insulating Americans from information at exactly the time, as the White House encircles Cuba and coerces Venezuela and bombs Iran and empowers ICE, that Americans could most use it. Examining how this situation has come to be in such a short time shows something equally concerning. Namely, that Ellison’s sudden dominance is not by accident or contingency. It is a function of American power networks and the influence exercised inside of them, not just by Ellison but by a bevy of deputies who serve as his agents and have accrued fiefdoms of their own. (more...)
The Western media war: How Larry Ellison runs propaganda for 'Israel'
