Fantastic deep dive on the Skydance-Paramount merger dynamics. The Roy Cohn throughline here is incredibly sharp actually, especialy tying Carr's Project 2025 media chapter to this consolidaton wave. What got me thinking though is how the advertising pressure mecanism you mentioned with Murrow feels almsot quaint compared to direct ownership pressure today. Back then CBS atleast had some institutional buffer even if Paley caved sometimes, now Ellison just picks his guy and its done overnight.
They deserve this.
https://truthout.org/articles/cbs-evening-news-has-lost-over-a-million-viewers-since-bari-weiss-takeover/
I saw that! I was so happy! Lol. :-)
Fantastic deep dive on the Skydance-Paramount merger dynamics. The Roy Cohn throughline here is incredibly sharp actually, especialy tying Carr's Project 2025 media chapter to this consolidaton wave. What got me thinking though is how the advertising pressure mecanism you mentioned with Murrow feels almsot quaint compared to direct ownership pressure today. Back then CBS atleast had some institutional buffer even if Paley caved sometimes, now Ellison just picks his guy and its done overnight.
Oooh, “throughline.” I like that. Thanks for the comment!
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Moving to Europe sounds good to me.