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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
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Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a shitty gamble when online media is where it is at now a days. These big media networks are dinosaurs hanging on by a thread.
I think that's over-simplifying it. Some YouTube personality (or whatever we want to call 'online media' that isn't just CNN's website) isn't going to be getting a Whitehouse press pass anytime soon.
You haven’t read about what’s going on at the Pentagon wanted the press to sign a release saying only approved content could be published? It was so onerous that even Fox News refused to sign. Now the press Corp is basically a bunch of right wing influencers.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630076/the-press-corps...
Just in case you think this is just another liberal hit piece, let me repeat that Fox News refused to sign the agreement.
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Real people work in this industry, though. A merger of this size is bound to come with some layoffs and canceled projects. It's not as bad as food scarcity, of course. But it can do some collateral damage.
That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8.
Seems like a bad example. The problem with Episode 8 was not lack of creativity. Episode 7 was a complete retread of "A New Hope" and a bigger offender. At least blue Jedi milk is new.
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#224I must be thte only one who like Paramount+ Honestly would rather have the Warner Bros content over there than on Netflix.
The Paramount+ user interface on my Samsung TV is horrendous. It frequently crashes after displaying ads, forcing me to re-open the app and watch ads again. When watching ads does succeed (all 3 minutes of them…) and playback of my show begins, it shows the enormous pause button, the giant fade-to-black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, and covers up the subtitles, as though I had pressed ‘Play’. And trying t…
Why for the love of all that is holy are you using the in built smarts of any TV? Well except the Roku TVs are okay. But I still prefer my AppleTV. It has by far the best hardware in the business and supports the volume up/down button and power off of the TV through either CEC or IR.
And why are you not paying for ad free streaming?
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#225All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw.
[1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games
[2] predb.me
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you make something (eg TV shows), you might also want a direct relationship with your customer (eg viewer). Consequently, A platform where you get to choose how to present and celebrate the stories seems like a reasonable thing.
In the US, the film industry originally worked like the streaming industry does today. Besides just creating films, the major studios distributed them through the theaters they owned. If you wanted to see a Paramount film you had to go to a Paramount owned theater, if you wanted to see an MGM film you had to go to an MGM owned theater, and so on. In 1948, this distribution scheme was ruled to be in violation of antit…
So you want to pass a law that no one can produce content and put it on their own website?
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
We need some kind of independent anti-corruption agency, like the one we told Ukraine they had to have to receive aid.
All independent agencies are dead, according to SCOTUS fiat. If we want anything to survive they'll have to be rebuilt, either with an enlarged court that won't strike them down again, or as section 1 agencies that Congress has to power directly (which will also be hugely corrupt). Either that or an amendment that creates a branch that straddles the legislative and executive, to be truly independent.
Yes I know, sorry should have clarified my sarcasm :)
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is exactly what is going on. Everyone at WB management knows that the Ellisons want to weaponize CNN before the midterms runoffs start in spring.
Doesn't that imply that Netflix was planning to do the same (for their party)? Or are you saying Netflix is innocent here
No, it doesn't imply that. Saying party X plans to do something implies nothing about what party Y plans to do.
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hostile bids have been a thing forever.
That says nothing about this particular situation. Written language has been a thing for 5,000 years, and it's used for this bid, so nothing remarkable here ...
I guess the OP is just making an unrelated comment, because it almost sounds like he thinks that a hostile bid is evidence that the US has Ukraine-levels of corruption. Leaving aside the odd time period (Ukraine was much less corrupt pre-war than it was pre-Maidan, not to speak of its other more corrupt neighbor), the fact that hostile bids have been around for a long time in the US is good evidence to suggest that they don't indicate the level of corruption implied by OP. If OP made the same comment under a post about verb conjugation, wouldn't that seem odd to you too?
Or maybe they just happened to make an off-topic comment that had nothing to do with the hostile takeover.
Re: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we are well into uncharted territory. One thing's for sure - here be dragons. I'm sure the US version of oligarchy will come in its unique flavor. Probably people won't even fall out of windows! That mode of "suicide" is maybe distinctly Russian.
I don't want to disappoint, but you won't get oligarchy. You will get dictatorship and war.
It makes sense actually. :-( The US might be "free" and federated enough to not just bow down to a dictator.