Warner Bros. Discovery considers restarting talks with Paramount

I would prefer not to have all media consolidated into mega corporations, but I uncomfortably find myself rooting for Netflix. Paramount ruins almost everything it touches, and the Ellison will certainly use the extra control of media to spread more right-wing propaganda.

Larry Ellison is an asshole, and that’s all I have to say about this.

There's so many headlines and discussion surrounding the potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix's bid, the hostile bid from Paramount, and before it really ramped up in the news (from my perspective anyhow, which I think was caused by Paramount's hostile bid), Comcast was seriously interested as well, and what I find most concerning about this is that in all of this, I've seen little to no serious discussion or headlines about how this should possibly be an indicator of why Warner Bros. Discovery shouldn't be allowed be acquired and shouldn't need to be acquired.

If WBD is so valuable, which this crazy bidding war I think proves it is, how is it seemingly not part of the public discussion that it should be considered inappropriate and wrong for any of these acquisitions to happen? I understand that with the Trump administration there's no effective governing going on and any 'governing' that does happen is likely motivated by corruption, so I get that there's likely some acceptance that no amount of public discussion will result in the government intervening, but I still think there would be more coverage surrounding this idea to begin with.

That this coverage doesn't really seem to exist much outside of more niche outlets in my view is reinforcing that the public simply does not care or is not educated enough to weigh in on these issues, and/or the media is forgoing public interest (engagement and possibly money) to avoid magnifying public concerns about it. No matter how you slice it, I find that to be extremely concerning that we're so accepting of acquisitions of this type with little to no public push back against it. Given that two of the bidders in this most recent scenario are owners of NBC and CBS, among other media outlets I may not be aware of, I would lean towards believing they have a strong interest in not fanning the flames of the idea that big corporations like them shouldn't be able to acquire WBD. Even the ones not involved in the bidding likely have their own aspirations for acquisitions in the future and wouldn't want the public second guessing those.