What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?

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• Just_Lyin@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What does Marx think of corporate consolidation?

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    • pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Considering he’s dead, probably not much.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zany to the max

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    • TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so glad that I wasn’t the only one that recognized this from a bygone era in animation.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Terrible, it should never be allowed that companies can grow this large.

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• deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    BoJack Horseman should’ve had a happy ending

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• Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think we need to go back to the regulations in the 70’s where no company could own more than one type for an area. one newspaper, one radio station and one tv station.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about the Fairness Doctrine?

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    • lovely_reader@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With media and the public discourse in the state they’re in today, this would surely be impossible to enforce. Every viewpoint can be argued to have infinite counter viewpoints and people treat it like a sport. Maybe the people of 1949 were naive enough to reckon there were two sides to every argument, but implementing this today would be akin to outlawing any kind of controversial statement or discussion in the media. Perhaps the end of politics as we kn…

      Ok I’m starting to come around

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah although its kinda funny because despite that dying under reagan it sounds like they were pushing it with the colbert thing. another for me and not for thee.

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Death to monopolies

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• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It will be a Paramount Discovery of new ways to make movies and TV suck.

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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)

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a billionaire buying the good name of trusted companies so he can have a propaganda house that isn’t obviously such.

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• yogurt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brought to you by Bill Clinton’s Telecom Reform Act. Something like this would have been illegal before then.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Al Gore should’ve been President in 1993.

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• DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, what would Marx do?

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• Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of these days and god it’s going to happen, but Disney will own everything. They’re just making it easier for them to do so.

  Give it time.

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m happy to hear Netflix is not acquiring more. I’m not so sure about Paramount and Warner merging though. Could have been worse I guess.

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