The media conglomerate’s sweetheart deal is just the latest consequence of Trump’s interference in federal antitrust enforcement.
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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case
Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?
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Macklemore vs. Everybody
The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.
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What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up
In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
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Paramount, CBS, Trump, and the Ellisons: The Ultimate Corruption
A new documentary, ‘Murdering 60 Minutes,’ brilliantly connects the dots.
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Paramount’s Merger Strategy: Empty Promises and Empty Threats
The studio is alleging that the state attorneys general challenge to the merger with Warner Bros. is all about CNN, and that they’ll leave Hollywood if they don’t get their way.
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Organized Money: The Rollup of All Media Is No Longer Inevitable (with Adam Conover)
Antitrust is poking tiny holes in oligopoly’s dark cloak; is the light winning?
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Why Paramount Should Be Worried
A look inside the judge’s ruling for a brief pause in Paramount’s proposed deal with Warner Bros. reveals that the merger is in a shaky position.
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When the Anti-Sharia Law Demagogues Fall Silent
Today on TAP: The Republicans who stoke anti-Muslim bigotry have nothing to say about Sharia law nations buying CNN and Warner Bros.
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Challenge to Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger Focuses on Theaters, Basic Cable
The lawsuit, filed by 12 states, makes the case that a merged studio will have more leverage to dictate terms to distributors, leading to higher prices for everyone.