'One Family Is About to Control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok': Alarm Grows Over Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger | Common Dreams
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Alarms raised over Paramount Skydance's bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, sparking fears of media censorship and antitrust violations.

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    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.