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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 23, 2026
‘Independent CNN Oversight Board’ To Be Hand Picked By Paramount
Earlier this week we noted how California Democrats fecklessly folded to Paramount's demands and settled the 12-state antitrust lawsuit against Paramount's $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. We also noted how the conditions affixed to the deal are largely pathetic, and generally consist of a lot of performative fluff Paramount itself recommended and California AG...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 21, 2026
California AG Rob Bonta Caves, Paramount Merger To Proceed With Flimsy Conditions
California AG Rob Bonta has caved to what was a relentless, bipartisan pressure campaign to settle the 12 state antitrust lawsuit against Paramount. The AGs sued Paramount last July, arguing (correctly) that the $111 billion deal would largely be anti-competitive, resulting in mass layoffs as the even bigger Larry Ellison-owned company forces labor and consumers...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 16, 2026
Paramount Funds, ‘Leaks’ Dodgy Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked
Larry and David Ellison are desperate to get their unpopular $111 billion merger between Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers across the finish line. So they've been engaging in no shortage of dodgy behavior to try and derail the only thing left standing in their way: the 12-state antitrust lawsuit claiming that more media consolidation is anti-competitive...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 9, 2026
Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger
In addition to the $111 billion Paramount/Warner Bros merger just being foundationally bad for creatives, labor, and consumers, the Ellison family-owned company's executives just keep demonstrating why they're not really the kind of folks you want dominating the lion's share of U.S. media.That's included calling deal critics "antisemitic," cozying up to foreign authoritarians, constantly threatening...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 14, 2026
Paramount Promises Meaningless CNN ‘Oversight Board’ To Try And Gain Merger Approval
It's always the same routine.Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the sea, moon, and stars. We're told the consolidation will result in untold synergies, massive job growth, and incredible new innovation. Yet in a country too corrupt to have functional antitrust enforcement or working regulators, what we...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 28, 2026
Paramount Merger Gets Further Delayed, And Things Could Get Expensive
Just as Larry Ellison and Paramount executives had worried, the state antitrust challenge to their $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers has resulted in significant delays that could prove terminal.Two weeks ago California and eleven other states filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the merger, pointing out that the consolidation would undermine market competition, resulting...
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 13, 2025
Wrong Merger, Wrong Direction
How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 4, 2024
Shape-Shifting Companies
How the aggressive machinations of investor interests and corporate culture can significantly reshape a company’s focus. Just ask the company behind Frogger.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 13, 2020
Taking Stock
My longtime fascination with T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s odd slow cooker social media promotion, now that he’s slow-cooked his way through a merger with Sprint.
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