David Ellison will get control of CNN after all (and don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise)

Eighteen months ago, David Ellison was mostly known as an ATM for Hollywood producers seeking to pencil out budgets for quarter-zip dadcore flicks like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. But now, thanks to a timely reallocation of his father’s money, he’s set to be one...