CNN’s CEO is attempting to manage his staffers’ alarm as the network prepares to be acquired by a major Trump media ally on Thursday night. Mark Thompson, 68, sent a message to the CNN staff Thursday night to help mitigate panic after Paramount Skydance, helmed by nepo baby David Ellison, succeeded in the bidding war to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the network’s owner. “Many of you will have already heard and seen our reporting about today’s two significant pieces of news,” Thompson’s note, obtained by The Wrap, began. “First that the board of our parent company Warner Bros. Discovery has decided that Paramount Skydance’s offer to purchase WBD is now the best offer in front-of them, and second that Netflix has decided not to increase its own latest offer.”