\u201cThe threat of this merger in any form is an alarming escalation in a consolidation crisis that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the public it serves, and\u2014potentially\u2014the First Amendment itself,\u201d warned actress Jane Fonda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netflix announced a deal Friday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s film studio and streaming business for $83 billion, a merger that\u2014if approved by the Trump administration\u2014would create a media<\/a> behemoth that critics say threatens industry competition, higher costs for consumers, the rights of entertainment workers<\/a>, and democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Netflix, the largest streaming company in the world, and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), owner of the third-largest streaming platform HBO Max, unveiled<\/a> the proposed agreement after a closely watched bidding war that included Paramount Skydance, the company that the Trump administration<\/a> reportedly favored<\/a> to acquire WBD. Paramount is owned by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Republican megadonor Larry Ellison\u2014a close ally of President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe threat of this merger in any form is an alarming escalation in a consolidation crisis that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the public it serves, and\u2014potentially\u2014the First Amendment itself,\u201d warned actress Jane Fonda. Netflix announced a deal Friday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s film studio and streaming business for $83 billion, a merger that\u2014if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/net.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inglewoodlive.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}