Paramount to Acquire Warner Bros. thus forming the Largest Media Empire in History

I always wondered what the band name "Godspeed You Black Emperor" really meant, and now I think I'm starting to figure it out.

 

Pretty serious late stage croney capitalism vibes to this deal. Disgusting.

When the revolution comes, I'm about ready to hop on the bandwagon.

Eat the rich. Madame la Guillotine is thirsty.

 

lmao anti censorship @Space Ghost et al rejoice. Such small govt!!!

I'm sure these dumbasses are celebrating their tax..errr I mean legal tariffs as well

 

one of the smartest move NFLX has made,

, saving itself from spending $2 B to Warner in break-up fee.

the 2 B will be better spend on organic growth, such as another live event sporting event

post its announcement to end the bidding for Warner, NFLX stock price has risen from 75 to 98, 30% increase in ~~ a week




​

==========================================================================================



meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, to finance the purchase of Warner,Paramount debt

• balloons to $79 billion after Warner Bros deal
• Downgraded to Junk Status by Fitch, Put on Negative Credit Watch

​

​

 

I consume almost zero media from these companies.

 

Netflix is playing the LONG game. They are betting they will be able to pick up the assets they want at a discount after the debt forces PSKY to sell off assets.

 

Netflix might just get a deal when Paramount goes bankrupt.

 

HBO and Comedy Central make good stuff...that's all I care about

 

Sorry, I missed this earlier: There's not enough zingzams and pewpews to keep a Marvel Kid like him interested.

 

I'm super busy non-business hours. My video media consumption is pretty limited these days, so I try quality over quantity. I don't personally consume TV via terrestrial cable companies and by sitting on the couch channel surfing like a lot of you still do. Not a knock on it, I just don't have time, especially for commercials.

Comedy Central doesn't have anything that interests me, or at least, nothing I've heard about. And HBO is mostly garbage since the Discovery merger. If there are single shows or movies on those platforms I want to watch, there are other avenues I can use to consume them.

As for the Marvel jab...I will admit that I've fallen pretty far of the bandwagon in the last couple of years. I haven't watched the last two movies or the last couple of shows. I just don't have time and value sleep more.

 

NFLX and WBD are clear winners here,

Ellisons' Fortunes At Stake
“Daddy Larry looks like a chump for handing over all to his trust fund baby, David” noted tech columnist Kara Swisher

“Paramount is a subpar purchaser of Warner” and, under trust fund baby, David Ellison, would “run the new entity into a wall,”
she said, adding that Hollywood would see unprecedented layoffs and consolidation.

​

 

Trump Bought Netflix Debt Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros.

Paramount may have won the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, but President Trump continues to bet on the financial stability of Netflix.

As Paramount sought to pry Warner Bros. away from the streaming giant, Trump was adding more Netflix bonds to his personal portfolio, financial disclosures released by the White House on Wednesday show.

The disclosures show that President Trump bought between $600,000 and $1.25 million worth of Netflix debt in January, adding to the $500,000 to $1 million in Netflix bonds that he purchased in December, shortly after Netflix’s megadeal for Warners was announced.




qunitessential insider trading !

 

The Ellisons didn't have enough $ to win the merger fight,

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Abu Dhabi’s
L’imad Holding Company, and the Qatar Investment
Authority (QIA) are jointly putting up a total of $24 billion
investment into the Hollywood mega merger ,​

a power move that coincides with efforts to build local entertainment industries across the Middle East.

 

@Salvy
Maybe they can make Blade movie

 

Gee, and MAGA folks wonder how he could be compared to a man like Goebbels.

Film, radio, theater, and the press largely fell under Goebbels’s jurisdiction (though he shared power over the press with the head of the Reich Press Chamber, Max Amann, the Nazi newspaper magnate, and after 1937 with Otto Dietrich, head of the Reich Press Office).

Editors and journalists were expected to follow the mandates and instructions handed down by the ministry and had to be registered with the Reich Press Chamber to work in this field. Clause 14 of the law ordered editors to omit anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home.” The Propaganda Ministry aimed further to control the content of news and editorial pages through directives distributed in daily conferences in Berlin and transmitted through the party propaganda offices to regional or local papers. Detailed guidelines stated what stories could or could not be reported and how to report the news.

Journalists or editors who failed to follow these instructions could be fired or sent to a concentration camp. Reflecting in his diary on the press’s loss of independence, Goebbels, a one-time journalist, wrote: “Any man who still has a residue of honor will be very careful not to become a journalist.”

Daily directives from the Propaganda Ministry’s Press Division dictated what could or what could not be published under punishment of reprimand, loss of position, or imprisonment. Oversight of radio, film, newsreels, theater, and music fell directly to the Propaganda Ministry, which used a combination of these media to sell Nazi ideology.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ministry-of-propaganda-and-public-enlightenment

One year of Trump’s war on the press

Those who describe the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as a series of personal skirmishes with “difficult” or “hostile” journalists miss the bigger picture. This is not about isolated incidents but about a structural attack on the press as a democratic institution.

In October 2025 this strategy became starkly visible at the Pentagon. New press guidelines were introduced that effectively made independent reporting impossible. Access was tied to conditions that media organisations, Amnesty International and press-freedom groups said undermined normal journalistic practice and eroded protections for confidential sources.

Press-freedom organisations warned of a “tremendous intrusion” and a profound “chilling effect.” The signal is unmistakable: journalists who expose abuses of power or publish internal documents risk not only legal intimidation but direct intrusion into their private lives. The protection of sources—a cornerstone of investigative journalism—is now under direct threat.

https://wan-ifra.org/2026/01/one-year-of-trumps-war-on-the-press/

 

Liberal dominance of mainstream media is FINALLY taking some hits. Loving it. Balanced media is much better for a healthy democracy.

Liberals will cry because without 99% negative coverage of Trump, he’d be the most popular President of all time.

GOOD DAY