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Over at the newsletter I wrote about Mark Ruffalo's showdown with Paramount:

The $111 billion Paramount Warner Brothers deal is an irredeemable turd orchestrated by a Trump-allied fascist. Conditions (which would be temporary and probably not enforced) can't save it, and Democrats should grow a consistent backbone on media consolidation and antitrust.

I can’t think of any media consolidation that genuinely benefited the customers or most employees, not that those factions matter when the only game in town is C-suite maneuvering and stock valuations.

it's really not subtle! Yet if you read most media coverage of media mergers it's just...not deemed contextually relevant. Curious how that works!

I'm fascinated by it, genuinely. It's just getting worse, too. And Democrats SUCK when it comes to identifying threats and formulating reforms.

The fact that they don’t have any idea how to reconstitute local news and just handwave that the market will sort out our information space while hyperwealthy fascists collapse media under their heel is, uh, not great.