Paramount-Warner merger -- Billionaires got what they wanted
Billionaires got what they wanted Jessica at Free Press freepress.net From: info@freepress.net To: Mark M Giese Mon, Sep 21 2026 at 5:11 PM Mark, California Attorney General Rob Bonta just caved. And I’ll be honest: this stinks. After months of promising he would block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery mega-merger or force the companies to sell off major parts of the combined business, he signed off on a weak settlement full of empty, unenforceable promises with only a smattering of forced sell-offs, no real protections for workers and no meaningful limits on the Ellison family warping CBS and CNN’s journalism to serve Donald Trump. This is the same attorney general who told us that promises from the merging companies aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Now he’s agreed to exactly that: a toothless editorial oversight board and commitments on movie production that amount to less than what both companies were already doing on their own. You took action to oppose this deal...
