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As the media coverage of this expands, note how many can bother to mention that this was made possible by trump administration corruption, including a fake Trump DOJ antitrust investigation into the merger's competitive impacts that will now magically evaporate

euobserver.comHow Orbán systematically suffocated the Hungarian media over the past 15 yearsViktor Orbán has also pledged, in his annual address earlier this month, to “clear out” after the April elections media and civil society organisations deemed to threaten “sovereignty.” Fidesz already...

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

the one positive, if there is one, is that nobody at Larry Ellison's weird coalition of nepobabies and brunchlords appears to have any idea what they're doing. And the gargantuan debt load from this deal will be very challenging to navigate.

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which means this could end up like the last two-decades' worth of Warner Brothers related mergers stemming from AOL to AT&T. Just a big pile of overvalued enshittification. Things could get worse with a massive wave of consumer defections (😉), and if an AI bubble pop straining Larry's assets.

wndl "Dumocrat" bl

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@oneserenitynow.bsky.social

Not doing well as it is:

OneSerenityNow

@chromacatxyz.bsky.social

WE still have the Power of Our Purse so USE IT to cancel the streaming sites the Right Wing Fascists own.

chromacat.xyz

Not to be a doomer but Saudi or others will just finance whatever debts they incur and help keep the stock propped up no matter how bad the books get cooked There is no need to be profitable with the amount of money they have

yeah though even then will Saudis want to keep dumping money into a money pit if they can't maintain CNN's relevance and everybody leaves because it's just 24/7 garbage AI slop? There is some requirement for competence here, and they're not demonstrating a ton of it

calitude.bsky.social

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Polly Olly Fights to Save Democracy

I’ll be canceling my sub to HBO as soon as The Pitt has ended. Already canceled Paramount.

@pollyollydoodle.bsky.social

April 16 is the date of the last episode of season 2 of The Pitt. If HBO is subject to a Trump-friendly takeover, I will cancel my long term subscription as soon as I watch the last episode. We cannot have a right-wing oligarch media monopoly in America.

Al Smithson

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Eminently boycottable as well.

Andre Kenji de Sousa

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It'll be impossible to navigate. Paramount will have to renegotiate the NFL deal, Ellison's kid is hoarding cable channels in an era where cable TV is dying. Even with a bunch of hit movies WBD is losing money.

Al Smithson

@alsmithson.bsky.social

Nepobaby is right. More money than brains.

Erinn

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