The Paramount merger is officially a red vs. blue issue

The Paramount merger is officially a red vs. blue issue

For a while already, Paramount’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. has felt like one of the battles in a never-ending cultural and political war, pitting the Trump-friendly company against those who would rather not see one family and company control a massive segment of the media business. But if it only felt this way yesterday, today’s update makes this explicit. Two Republican attorneys general—Iowa’s Brenna Bird and Austin Knudsen—have f…