Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison broke his silence on the antitrust litigation facing his company’s proposed $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

In a New York Times guest essay published Tuesday, Ellison argued that legal pushback against the deal has been motivated by concerns over his ownership of CNN, not market share as argued by a dozen Democratic state attorneys general.

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