Billionaires continue to think that they can operate with impunity and tear apart the institutions that hold our democracy together.

The acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery by Paramount is a deal that would combine two of Hollywood's biggest studios with some of America's most watched news

networks under Larry and David Ellison's control. These people are not good actors, Larry and

David Ellison. The good news is that we still have two patriots right here, Mark Ruffalo,

and Norm Eisen that are fighting this every step of the way, who will not bend the knee,

who will say not today, fascist, Mark, this is one of the largest media mergers in American history.

Tell our listeners about the implications of this merger on workers in the Hollywood and media industries.

Well, what we've seen historically is these mergers actually come with massive layoffs.

This particular merger will take on, I think they're starting with $111 billion.

$58 to $78 of that will be debt, which means layoffs, which means for affordability.

Households who want Paramount or Max or HBO, their subscriptions, prices will go up because

there's a lack of competition in the market. And what we'll see is we're just talking

about it is the censorship of shows or a loss of diversity of shows. Even with the best intentions,

when you take two of the biggest studios and you combine them into one, you're going to lose an

enormous amount of diversity in the programming.

And we're looking at thousands of jobs being lost in Hollywood right now, which is really

struggling after the pandemic and after

the strikes.

This couldn't really come at a worse time.

And if it was any other administration, other than the Trump administration, this wouldn't

be happening.

It would be stopped.

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