Concerns are mounting about the state of the US media landscape now that it looks increasingly likely that Paramount Skydance—a company controlled by the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, a donor to President Donald Trump—will succeed in its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.
One day after Netflix announced that it was dropping its previously accepted bid to buy Warner, many critics demanded that antitrust laws be invoked to block the Paramount-Warner merger from going through.
Alvaro Bedoya, former commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, warned that the Ellison family could soon use their control over vast swaths of US media properties to engage in mass censorship, and he pointed to their decisions to cancel Stephen Colbert’s program and to refuse to air an interview with Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico.
It’s not like David Ellison has his own money. This is all Larry- a confirmed Zionist btw
One far right family of billionaires
This would have been illegal before Bill Clinton’s signature legislation the Telecom Reform Act.
And even if it didn’t pass back then, I doubt this administration would be constrained by such things as the law.
This is potentially one of those butterfly effect things, We would be in a totally different landscape if Bill Clinton was never elected.
I expect a whole lot of shows to be completely ruined on HBO. How long until John Oliver’s show is cancelled? Bill Maher will probably bend the knee and stay on.
CNN was already quite corporate as-is, I expect they’ll become ridiculously obsequious, just like CBS.
The right wing will probably think both are still too “woke”, since they (and honestly, a lot of the centrists and low-info, too) have bought into the stupid myth of a “liberal media”, LOL. The existence of a mainstream “liberal media” in America has never really been a thing.
Bill Maher is a spineless weasel, boomer asshat
I guess I’m unsubscribing from HBO Max as well as paramount plus….
Unsubscribe from ALL streaming services.
👆 pirating is back
So there goes John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, too.
Fuck.
What if I told you that you don’t have to subscribe to watch it?
I’m doing that already but I also fully expect new management to not renew their contract the same Paramount did to Colbert.
Too big to fail is ALSO too big to care.
