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Kara Confirms: She's Leaving CNN
At 16:50 · chapter starts 15:30
Scott presses Kara on her CNN future, and she states it plainly: she doesn't trust the Ellisons to make good editorial decisions, she doesn't want to work for tech people who own news organizations, and she's leaving when her contract is up — hoping they'll let her out early. She draws a direct parallel to leaving Rupert Murdoch's empire, framing it as simply who she is. Scott jokes that he, unlike Kara, is absolutely available — 'an expensive whore' — and that the Ellisons have his number. Kara confirms they already called him and says she defended him in that conversation. The exchange is as revealing about the pair's different relationships with institutional media as anything they've said publicly. Both agree, however, that the podcasting business they've built offers better economics than TV anyway — 'we are TV, just with much better economics.'
Kara Swisher confirmed on air she is leaving CNN when her contract ends, citing her refusal to work under the Ellison family's ownership. She's done it before with Murdoch. This is not a new Kara Swisher move — it's just who she is.
