Should all monopolies be split into different companies which would be given to the workers who would collectivize them?
A consolidation of power in the media sector. Good for those who want to control narratives. Bad for the dissemination of opposing viewpoints, and thus bad for regular people. Same as it ever was.
I am 100% convinced that Ellison chased this deal specifically for control over CNN.
Now the Reich wing has control over most tv media outlets. All they need is to obtain MS Now and they’d have everything.
What does Marx think of corporate consolidation?
Considering he’s dead, probably not much.
Zany to the max
I’m so glad that I wasn’t the only one that recognized this from a bygone era in animation.
Terrible, it should never be allowed that companies can grow this large.
I think that mergers like this only ever benefit those who are responsible for taking the money out of the companies beforehand.
I believe that there has never been a merger of two near equally terrible companies that has ever benefited the consumers or the general public. It is almost always geared to getting a small number of investors paid.This is the Orbanization of media, in Hungary Orban gave broadcasting licenses to only those who supported him. Here in America instead of using licenses as the mechanism they’re just using money to do the same thing. America needs a serious discussion on trust busting to start breaking up big businesses. Be ready for CNN to become Fox News light.
BoJack Horseman should’ve had a happy ending in which BoJack gets his life back on track thanks to him living with Diane.
Death to monopolies
It will be a Paramount Discovery of new ways to make movies and TV suck.
I’m going to drop my HBO sub and hope others do the same. The right is buying all the truth-telling media and shareholders need to feel this one deeply.
Monopolies should be treated with a heavier hand than what they are in the US currently.
I don’t agree with just confiscating property without due process and I definitely don’t agree with using tax payer money to buy out the current owners just to give it to the workers.
This is a billionaire buying the good name of trusted companies so he can have a propaganda house that isn’t obviously such.
I think that the top tier actors that are making statements on social media or when accepting their awards should put their money where their mouth is and work with smaller independent companies that can make this an opportunity to grow.
I have mixed thoughts. Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition. However I love movies (check my profile if you want proof) and specifically I love going to the movie theater. Paramount has continued supporting movie theaters which is more than you can say about Netflix and Sarandos. Likewise Zaslav was just making anti-consuner decisions left and right. I can count on more than one hand the amount of times I’ve called that man a piece of shit. Not to mention Netflix’s slavish attachment to “the algorithm” just churns out a lot of slop
So while the merger is bad it’s probably the better of the two options and anything that reduces David Zaslav’s power is a net positive in my book, even if he makes a small country’s worth of money doing it
However I love movies
if you love movies, you should hate every merger… ALL mergers are about buying market share and eliminating competition, with no competition you will get whatever slop they think will be commercially successful and call it a day (just look at all the great IP domain Disney has ruined via acquisitions)
Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition
I mean… I led with that. I don’t like the merger, but I like it more than Netflix acquiring them. There are takes beyond black and white
hmmmm I don’t see there is much room here beyond black and white…
As is, the industry would compare to 2 fairly ill individuals that still manage… after the merger it would be like having one terminal patient, one with terminal brain cancer or the other with advance Alzheimer; a difference with no distinction at that point
Brought to you by Bill Clinton’s Telecom Reform Act. Something like this would have been illegal before then.
Al Gore should’ve been President in 1993.
It’s the same thing Discovery did in the first place. This is the last moment of TV having value before the boomers are dead so Discovery merged with Warner to make a big ball of shit that Netflix would have to buy if they wanted Game of Thrones and Superman. Paramount doesn’t want to be left out so they’re adding all their shit to the ball and they’ll try to sell it to Netflix again in 2 years.
