Paramount settles antitrust suit, clearing way for Warner Bros merger
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
Karl Bode919what happens next? what always happens. Paramount moves forward, and pays down the massive deal debt with massive layoffs, price hikes, and corner cutting resulting in lower quality products. At which point guys like Newsom, and other folks who pushed for settlement, will be nowhere to be found.
Serenity Now!159They didn’t even bother to drag their feet on this til after the midterms. Newsom’s political instincts are garbage. Maddening.
Andy 🏔️43Normie Democrats yearn for the days when all their problems could be solved by a toothless oversight committee.
James Belcher35Corrupt, homeless-hating transphobe Gavin Newsom would deliver more of the same neoliberal policies that made fascism viable. He's part of the problem, not the solution.
whykiki.bsky.social35He always sides with money.
8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade34Gavin will never be President, as much as he wants to be.
Mel 💐🌸🌷🌺🌞13Campaign hard against Newsom in the Democratic primaries, and cancel any Paramount and WBD subs you have, even free ones. Do not give these people your money, and do not pad their official sub or viewing numbers.
Qrik11Wait-wait how do you settle anti-trust suit? You-you either are or are not! This-this settlement just sounds-sounds like bought-purchased way out of trouble...
Despoina [Commissions Open]6Gavin Newsom the politician of the Oligarchy.
Dave Mazella6When polls say that people distrust politicians, press, & media all at once, they’re referencing stuff like this
Ody6Fuck you, Gavin Newsom, Signed, A California voter who put you in office multiple times
The Troys Are Back In Town5Please note that Newsom was completely on the side of studios breaking the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA strikes, the destructive effects this will have to both labor and artistic quality is how he believes the world should work.
Jennifer Grand5Gavin Newsom is in bed with all the billionaires.
Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian)5How long is it again before Superman and Batman enter the public domain? Ten years? Also now is a GREAT time to talk about creator-owned comics!
Pirate Nana🔪🏴☠️☠️🦄🐙4Let’s all put our boot on Gavin’s neck and never let up 🤬🤬🤬
MJ Dean4Gavin Newsom is a Republican in Democrats’ clothing. He should NEVER be President… EVER.
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence”
Frances Larina14If only the FCC Commissioner knew someone who could put a stop to the merger! Like maybe the head of a federal agency that is in charge of I dunno...communications, or something.
Artesian Mystic8She’s here on BSky btw. @agomezfcc.bsky.social
#ImpeachTrump-NOW8For those of us who lived through the early 1980s break up of ma bell. WTF
Rebel Della 🟧 💜💙6No kidding. There is already nothing to watch on TV.
irishkj55.bsky.social5And torpedos Gavin Newsome 2028. And I'm more of a "centrist". But this along with lionizing Charlie Kirk is hard to overlook. Only if it ends up as a choice between him and Vance or DeSantis.
T-Fish🇨🇦🍁5Sooooo, a shit storm of a deal on trump’s watch once again.
Comfortably Numb279If only there was a federal agency that could stop monopolizing media mergers.
Don Moynihan129No, no, I was told this sort of concentration of power desperate to extract capital will encourage the enshittification of products, which I believe is the opposite of shittification.
General Strike20Ellisons will flood the news and movies with propaganda. Abandon it now or risk being brainwashed.
Rootbeercutiebooty5This is going to suck for a while
Kevin D. Grüssing 🪷🪷 (Pronounced Grew-sing)5Gavin Newsom's Presidential dreams will get torpedoed the second those mass layoffs drop.
Frances Larina5If only the FCC Commissioner knew someone who could put a stop to the merger! Like maybe the head of a federal agency that is in charge of I dunno...communications, or something.
melindamosheim2Yep...the usual corporate corruption running rampant in USA...this country is just ill.
Oh by the way while the president was distracting everyone the fucking studio conglomerate mega-merger went through. That means CNN is owned by Ai sycophant Larry Ellison and his son David both known Maga ass lickers. If it couldnt be trusted before it really cant now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Kasey Gifford61More bad news for animators and artists. But then...what isnt these days.
Isabelle 🐀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️6'California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the settlement "a strong antitrust outcome."' Apparently the California AG is a fucking idiot.
Netty Bo Betty2David Ellison shouts out Gavin Newsom for “his support throughout this process” after the Paramount & Warner Brothers merger goes through, giving the Ellison’s control of CNN in addition to CBS.
la-crystal.bsky.social1Why would states and unions settle for this?
Snailbunny Designs 🐌1At this point I only watch youtube. It sucks too but they aren't usually secretive about it. Also you can use an ad blocker no matter how much they try to fight it and its free.
Meghan Lands1This genuinely passed me by, since my mom died I haven't been reading the US news or any entertainment stuff which is usually my thing. I haven't read the article yet, does this mean they're staying in LA or no?
Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸8Supporting independent media is the only way for us to move forward from these deplorable billionaires who plan to control every aspect of our lives, including what we think about. Eff them all. 🤬 #TaxTheRich #VoteBlue #SheShed
RunningRed NightBringer3This should be a stark reminder for anyone that the integrity and accuracy of any "news" organization is inversely proportional to the billionaire or techbro who owns it. When non-journalists own the media entity, it is no longer news but propaganda.
Here's our story on Rob Bonta's disappointing settlement of the Paramount-Warner Bros merger. Just an awful decision. prospect.org/2026/09/21/b...
Ken MacLennan23what the actual fuck, @robbonta.bsky.social
George9Narrator: Skydunce will leave California anyway
Demomom6It blows my mind that CA can’t have a squadron of Mamdani clones - our mayors in the big cities are disappointing as are most of our other politicians - and the new governor will likely be just as sketchy as Newsom
townhell.bsky.social6It's not just Bonta -- it's also Weiser (CO) & James (NY). Perhaps they got sour advice from outside council and trying to maximize deal before 10/1, when Paramount starts paying $7m/day to Warner. Potential loss of leverage seems minimal. Nor are the states in any way risking liability. Bad advice
Paul Hikari5You want to give Bonta a piece of your mind? Here’s his contact page, folks. oag.ca.gov/contact/gene...
Chris Wark3Proof that calling yourself a Democrat doesn't guarantee that you give a shit about democracy.
Will Stancil414Completely insane decision. Even if you're afraid of Paramount somehow retaliating, drag it out for another 45 days, because the whole world is going to change come November 3.
Tiffany⸆⸉7File under: Newsome should never be POTUS
29 U.S.C. § 1573Rob Bonta clearly has aspirations of higher office, but he just flushed them all down the toilet
An Intersectional Gipper3An under-appreciated reason why peoples' livelihoods should not be dependent on the whims of capitalists is because we should not let them have the power to hold us hostage to force politicians to cave.
Eric Sipple2This is why people hate Democrats. It's not any of the shit pundits mumble about, it's that when the time comes to fight, they fold, and ultimately give almost as much space to huge corporations to destroy us as the Republicans.
I would like to point out that mergers with Warner Bros. seldom work out well for the company buying them...
Nash38Ellison is already leveraged to his eyeballs, Oracle's a disaster waiting to happen, I have no idea what is going through these people's heads.
Stuart Kenny15Yeah, how long will it be before Paramount Skydance suddenly realises "OH FUCK, OH FUCK FUCK FUCK" when it turns out to be a massive money pit they can't control? Warner's bad luck with conglomerates owning them goes all they way back to Kinney Leisure bought them out in 1969.
JoJo Walker10I still don't think this merger will happen.
Not Steve Jortles4Netflix is just biding its time until both of them go bankrupt, and pick up the pieces.
jort-hk.bsky.social3The goal is a short term propaganda machine, and to make a lot of money for making these deals happen. They don't give a shit what happens to the companies or the people under them.
Michael Flinn3Owners come and owners go but WARNER BROS ARE FOREVER.
The deal reached will, according to California’s Attorney General, allow CBS’ news to maintain its editorial independence. The problem is that CBS news has not been editorially independent since Bari Weiss took over. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/21/m...
Story of bas Monde1the problem is the pablum Dems aholes that agreed to it
QOFE1EXACTLY They will say whatever they NEED TO SAY to get this merger thru. Then do the exact opposite. JUST LIKE THE TURD. MAGA NAZI propaganda will be CBS, CNN, and all Warner Bros channels and shows include "hbo". I will cancel my "hbomax" streaming service subscription the day is closes.
Zach Rabiroff10I hate to be crass at a moment like this, but do they need applicants for that editorially-independent board of journalists, and is healthcare involved
Belle Woods, Esq. ⚖️3The fact that the AGs are allowing the merger to go forward is complete & utter 🐂 💩. I don’t care about the “concessions” they think they’ve extracted. This merger will result in a massive monopoly with ⬆️ prices & hands even more power to the right-wing, corrupt, trump-aligned Ellisons.
Paramount's owners have made concessions to 12 Democratic state attorneys general to settle a lawsuit that endangered the media company's bid for its larger Hollywood rival, Warner Bros. Discovery. n.pr/4yaUT42
Another Josh Smith33The only concession anyone should consider is that the merger violates antitrust laws
What Fresh Hell Is This?11DEM AGs have lost their damn minds. What recourse will they have when the agreement is ignored?
Part-Time Fanboy8Wow. That headline, NPR. What's going on with you? Acting like Paramount lost something here to mislead readers into thinking something good happened here for consumers and workers. Bad form. What's happened to you?
Jay from Quahog5Billionaires WIN Again, film at 11
Hal Carver2I don’t understand what kind of concessions the attorneys general could’ve made? The whole point of the merger is to take another step in destroying freedom of the press. How the hell could any attorney general be for that? Unless they pay enough $ to bankrupt the Ellison family this is a mistake
wanderartist.bsky.social2Still boycotting everything related to Paramount. I'm getting a lot more reading done these days.
I’m against this merger. And it just moved much closer to happening. CBS. CNN. Warner Bros. Major streaming assets — one owner. That’s too much control over what people watch, what gets made, and how news reaches them. This isn’t just consolidation. It’s concentrated cultural power.
Bet you that Universal, Sony, Netflix, Lionsgate, Amazon or Apple will be buying Paramount and Warner Bros within a year or two once this merger between the two ends badly
Kee The Tom and Jerry Guy6Netflix would be the funniest option after all this. They back out, let Paramount take the brunt of the debt and pick up the scraps for cheap...
67 rizz5didnt we learn anything from disney monopolising shit?
ethansoniclbpfan.bsky.social3Get ready to ignore and pirate sonic movie 4 and every other paramount and wb related thing going forward
ShiningStar50222Not before a ton of long lasting damage is done, some of which could be irreversible.
j0hnny-sawy3r.bsky.social1I want either Netflix or Apple to buy Paramount and Warner Bros to be independent again.
This is bullshit. I'm old enough to remember oversight boards for Murdoch & WSJ &Times; quickly forgotten. AGs caved to propaganda oligarchy. Democracy abandoned at the price of a few gaffers' jobs. Paramount Reaches Deal to Clear Way to Create News and Media Giant www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
Brian1Some AGs should give up their dream of governor after this.
retiredandlovingit.bsky.social1All we can do is vote and boycott.
Damon Kiesow19Just legacy media standing on the conveyor belt in the abbattoir of quality, trust, and relevancy, and turning up the speed.
Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦15Fucking jokers. Yeah, because companies ALWAYS KEEP THEIR PROMISES. Unserious fucking losers. Oh, you GUARANTEE you'll increase production in the USA? Yeah? Who makes up the 40% exchange rate making shooting in Canada so advantageous BEFORE exchange even applies? Got a calculator, chucklefuck?
A merged Paramount Warner Bros. will be half-owned by “some of the most repressive governments in the world." “An investment this large in one of America’s biggest media companies doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Will McKinley27Trump's FCC broke 92 yrs of regulatory precedent to ok Paramount WB’s half ownership by repressive monarchs. Rules in place since 1934 prevent foreign investment of 25% or more in US broadcasters, but FCC chairman Carr determined this to be in the “public interest." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
joecorey3rd.bsky.social3It's all going to collapse with debt upon debt upon debt
A Statement From SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin and National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Regarding Paramount/Warner Bros. Antitrust Settlement ow.ly/B07W50ZPNBg
Centurian12822If two of the biggest names in visual media are allowed to merge, any and all collective bargaining power the SAG-AFTRA has will disappear.
Laura Kowalski Linden14But in reality this merger is death. It never should have happened.
Jason Ginsburg9How can you say this? How can you abandon your WGA brothers and sisters?
Glenn Waldorf2I think that David Ellison, David Zaslav, and all of the other executives at Warner Bros./Paramount could grind up every single fucking member of your “union” into beef and feed it to their children. And y’all would just talk about how they’ve
Blimple 2So thoughts and prayers then? That’s all you got?
jetblackbox2They 100% will betray you.
Jill Weinberger71"All of the companies have the opportunity to exceed their legal obligations and make additional efforts to ensure that our workplaces are healthy and employers honor our dignity."
Mere Smith11terrible look and you should be ashamed of yourselves
Ali Trotta10So, just handing over the ring to Sauron, then? Got it.
friendOWO🏳️⚧️ || GET ME SPIDERS OF PICTURE MAN5Sean needs to step down. Disrespectfully. I didn’t know SAG covered adult film actors, because considering how you just fucked the people you represent you are not the man who should be trusted with the best interests of actors. Wow. You could strike. You know. Fight against minopolization
Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego)4Damn. And I thought Ed Sheeran‘s carefully Krafted statement was going to be the mealiest-mouthed kowtowing bullshit this week.
🍇Your Local Taffy Grape Pusher Lady🍇3Not so wise, Sam. Not at all.
Kevin D. Grüssing 🪷🪷 (Pronounced Grew-sing)2You're supposed to be the most powerful Guild in Hollywood. And yet, you're glad to settle for "the lowest standard" because outside of @wgawest.bsky.social / @wgaeast.bsky.social, the Hollywood Guilds are a bunch of worthless, easy to manipulate cowards who don't really stand up for their own.