The Billionaires Are Building Their Own Skynet. We’re Cooked

The Billionaires Are Building Their Own Skynet. We’re Cooked

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger puts CBS, CNN, HBO, BET, and a massive chunk of American entertainment under one corporate roof. That should scare the hell out of us.

Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood, News Business

The Ellison family's $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery means more top-down control, and less room for dissent.

Dark day for Hollywood labor: Paramount-Warner Bros. mega merger approved

LOS ANGELES—“In years to come, we’ll be able to point to this failure to put consumers over the monied interests of corporate consolidation as the tipping-point moment for media in this country.”  Those were the stark words from the Block the Merger coalition after Judge Martínez-Olguín removed the last roadblock to the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. […]

How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business

Ben Schwartz The Ellison family’s $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery means more top-down control, and less room for dissent.