Anonymous wrote:If this goes through, the enshittification of media and news intensifies.

Let's not kid ourselves. That happened decades ago.

You can drop the drama, hon.

If this goes through, the enshittification of media and news intensifies.

Oracle is already leveraged to the gills. It sounds like their bondholders are going to sue to prevent Ellison from doing this to their company.

Great. Murdoch 2.0.

Barf.

CNN owned by Ellison is gonna be awesome.

Stir it up!

Netflix is not going to raise its bid, so the Ellisons will now own CNN as well as CBS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/netflix-drops-out-warner-bros/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f003

He better be bringing a Netflix Peace Prize

Trump not beating the racism allegations...again.

Anonymous wrote:

Come in Netflix!

Cave!

I need to be paying for one less streaming service.

Finally, some pushback against the control of media. Hopefully the Nextflix deal goes through.

The Hill: Warner Bros. Discovery preparing to tell shareholders: Back Netflix deal over Paramount

WBD, the massive media conglomerate that owns HBO, CNN and a number of other top brands in news and entertainment, is preparing to advise its top shareholders to reject a bid from Paramount to buy the company and back a planned deal with Netflix instead.

The decision, which was reported by multiple news outlets on Tuesday, comes after Paramount announced a hostile bid to buy the entirety of the Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio, including its linear television assets like TNT Sports and CNN.

Anonymous wrote:It’s never a good thing when foreigners own pieces of your media.

Foreigners have owned our
Media for decades. Can you name a single American that owns media of any note?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s never a good thing when foreigners own pieces of your media.

(Not) surprising that Colbert leaves out the Israel part of the deal. Propagandist shill.

The Independent: Colbert grills NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on his Israel views ahead of primary vote

Ellison, the biggest private donor to the IDF, wants to further dominate the media landscape. Bought TikTok because of it. All of this is happening because people were criticizing Israel too much on social media.

Anonymous wrote:It’s never a good thing when foreigners own pieces of your media.

(Not) surprising that Colbert leaves out the Israel part of the deal. Propagandist shill.

The Independent: Colbert grills NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on his Israel views ahead of primary vote