Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount(reuters.com) |
Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount(reuters.com) |
the first time you bounce me through two dozen servers during auth
before letting me into my stuff, I’m out.
If I was trying to turn Paramount into a like right-leaning culture war friendly entertainment company, I would have given Taylor Sheridan whatever he wanted, and changed the name to "Paramount, brought to you by Taylor Sheridan".
I remember when this first started, I thought to myself, how are you going to bring back 80's style American jingoism with only one director doing it, then I find out it was worse then that, because they drove that one director away.
I covered the competing bids when this was still an open question: https://philippdubach.com/posts/not-logan-roy-netflix-vs.-pa...
If they wanted the policial platforms and had offered to buy them from Warner as standalone for a tenth of the cost Warner would have snapped their hand off.
They need the IP for scale. That is what this is about.
Would make my eve to hear any folks who are going to cancel in protest of this continued consolidation.
Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win
But mainly it's driven by right-wing media propaganda. It was never really true, not even really a little. But even so, you can listen to hours and hours of content per day from right-wing personalities driving anti-media grievance. It's been that way for at least two decades.
To change the perception, far-right propaganda has to be countered or stopped. If the Ellison's and Weiss start meddling with CNN, it's probably not to counter far-right propaganda, but to spread even more.