Today In Anti-Trust

From 1889. The Gilded Age is back!

Karl Bode /Techdirt:
With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok
Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:   Movie Theaters to Keep Lobbying Against Warner Bros. Deal, Now Targeting Paramount

Katherine Mosack / One America News Network:   Netflix declines to raise offer to buy Warner Bros., opening door for Paramount to finalize merger

Chris Walker / Truthout:   Netflix Bows Out of Warner Bros. Discovery Bid After Skydance Raises Offer

Chris Hughes / Bloomberg:   Oh No, Rationality Prevailed in the Warner Bros. Auction

Edith Olmsted / New Republic:   Democrats Slam Trumpist Takeover of Warner Bros.

Bradley Cortright / New York Sun:   CNN Stars Erin Burnett, Brianna Keilar Face Uncertain Future as Paramount Wins Warner Bros.: Ellison Reportedly Discussed Firing Both Hosts With Trump

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:   With Paramount set to take over WBD, Trump just steered a major news outlet into the hands of a crony

Graham Starr / TechCrunch:   Netflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, giving studios, HBO, and CNN to Ellison-owned Paramount

Cable TV Giants Unite: Charter’s $34.5 Billion Merger With Cox Gets FCC Approval

The deal was approved by the FCC with promises of upgrading internet services across the country, as well as adhering to some policies that have appeared in the Trump administration's agenda.

Not just anti-trust, but w/ regime interference. The First Amendment means religious freedom for the Gawd of Abraham's closet cases to persecute the queers, not that you can open your fat mouth & say anything you want!