Is anyone at all surprised that nepo-baby David Ellison is paying for a massive astroturf campaign in an attempt to secure approval for Paramont's takeover of Warner Brothers?
Dishonesty and greed is all that he has.
We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication what kind of company we’re dealing with, and why they shouldn’t be allowed to control an even bigger slice of U.S. media.
Recent desperate moves by the company include accusing all deal critics of being “antisemitic,” threatening to take Paramount out of California if states attempt to enforce U.S. antitrust laws, and running press leak and PR campaigns (in close collaboration with their Trump allies) making all sorts of patently false claims as to why more media consolidation is great for America.
Paramount’s also been caught using an “astroturf” — or fake grass roots organization — to try and make it appear that the giant merger has more public support than it does.
Let us note here that in addition to being unethical, such a tactic is really stupid.
It is entirely possible that much of the public does not know or does not care about the merger, but any showing of grass roots support is transparently fraudulent on its face.
David Ellison is too f%$#ing stupid to be allowed control of that much of the US media landscape.
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