Controlling the archives is about controlling our access to information, how we understand the world and each other.
A Paramount Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery merger is bad for workers and consumers. It will result in job losses and fewer opportunities for creatives, and fewer choices and higher prices for consumers.
Literally, a canary in the coal mine... As a lifelong movie lover and TV kid of the 60's & 70's, this is utterly distressing.
Turns out that if you gut CBS news, gut 60 Minutes, promise to gut CNN, cancel Colbert, get $29B in Saudi, Qatari & UAE money, and hold a weird lavish banquet for the President and acting AG in a federal building… you can get your illegal merger approved by DOJ
David Ellison's Skydance bought Viacom and removed the public Comedy Central video archive including Steve Colbert's interview of me
Paramount says that its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery will somehow result in *more* content. So why is it already hitting the breaks on projects *currently under development*?
Agustin Rossi to @jorgeramosnews: Ignore the idea that AI will control us or take over the world. Listen to Pope Leo: Don't let AI divide us, make sure AI *augments* workers rather than replacing them, and make sure it doesn't steal content from creators.
You probably know the DoJ waved through the Warnermount merger yesterday. Our guest, Alvaro Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner (fired by Trump), explains in clear words how he thinks the deal can and will be stopped.
Plus @mattbelloni.bsky.social and I bring the banter.
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Paramount says that its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery will somehow result in *more* content. So why is it already hitting the breaks on projects *currently under development*?
Ruth Livier, PhD
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There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.
There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.
Alvaro M. Bedoya
Alvaro M. Bedoya
Alvaro M. Bedoya
Alvaro M. Bedoya
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people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
Alvaro M. Bedoya
Alvaro M. Bedoya
Juan Cole
Kim Masters
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I went to a two-year-old’s birthday party today and their parents booked an LA Waste Management trash truck to come park out front and the way these kids RAN to see this thing up close!!! The WM reps also had party favors and coloring books. Lowkey want to book it for my own birthday
