Outlet track record
CNN / Time
U.S. center-left (CNN); U.S. center / center-left, establishment mainstream (Time)
CNN is a U.S. cable and digital news network. It became part of Skydance's combined Paramount-Warner Bros. company on October 6, 2026, and sits alongside CBS News. Time is a weekly news magazine owned by billionaire Marc Benioff. CNN's reporting on the second Trump administration is often critical and adversarial, and the White House has restricted its access. Time's coverage is more measured, and its owner has made friendly public statements about Trump.
Owned byCNN: owned by Skydance (formerly Paramount Skydance), controlled by David Ellison. Its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's former parent, closed on October 6, 2026. Time: owned personally by Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, and his wife Lynne, who bought it in 2018 for $190 million. Time is run separately from Benioff's company.
LeaningU.S. center-left (CNN); U.S. center / center-left, establishment mainstream (Time)
On the administrationmixed
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun