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But on the bright side we'll get a season of The Pitt focused on vaccine injuries and the danger of socialized medicine

Larry, Elon, Rupert and John (Malone) have too much invested in the top-down, command-and-control media environment they’ve spent years creating to let SkyDance just go toes up. Thinking more: the mother of all debt workouts. Only the entertainment industry at large will suffer.

And it's going to make nothing but ANGEL Studios/Taylor Sheridan-style jingoistic pro-war copaganda. Which will only accelerate their collapse.

I agree, but it gives him another chance to influence it while it exists. Just as Trump’s other ‘friends’ control more and more of the media. It’s authoritarian 101.

only 28 a year to go to meet that empty 30 film promise

This may be a short merger. The interest on the debt is over a billion per year, with no sane way to refinance for less load. Musk blew a billion to keep himself at the billionaires club. No one really likes Musk, they tolerate him.

Isn't this just more evidence that the Nerd Reich are cooperating to influence US politics and media landscape to win government support and deals. Just classic rent- seeking behaviour with a fascist "blame immigrants not us for inequality" twist.

Yeah just a bit...Oracle is going to die when the AI bubble pops and this company is already worth only half of the combined company's values prior to the merger. $1B isn't going to refloat this sinking ship

They want to control media.

There's no such thing as a megaphone that's too unprofitable or in too much debt.

It's a small price to get rid of programming he doesn't like