Earlier this week, Tony Dokoupil, the newly installed anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” took a brief moment to mark the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the president of ‘whitewashing it,’” Dokoupil said while images of Trump supporters carrying banners thanking him for their pardons splashed on screen.

Dokoupil’s breathtaking both-sides framing of an attack carried out by a mob of ardent Trump followers sparked swift and widespread criticism, both inside and outside CBS News. As Status previously reported, the network has been roiled in recent days by Dokoupil’s rocky early tenure, with journalists privately and publicly questioning how an attempted coup could be reduced to a partisan dispute on the network’s air.

The coverage, however, was not only surely welcome at the Trump White House, but also highlighted a reality hovering over CBS News itself. Indeed, Dokoupil’s disgraceful framing served as a reminder that Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle co-founder who bankrolled his son’s takeover of CBS News’ parent company, Paramount, assisted Trump’s efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election.

In the days after Trump decisively lost to Joe Biden, Ellison joined a private call with the president’s allies—including Fox News host Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham—that was “focused on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote,” The Washington Post reported at the time. The call, organized by the pro-Trump group True the Vote, which promoted election disinformation, centered on whether Congress should intervene to force a “change in election results,” according to an attorney for the group.