The Deal That Saved Us From a Political Media Empire

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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TJ Walker discusses a media deal that prevented Paramount, controlled by the Ellison family and seen as aligned with Trump, from acquiring additional assets. He contrasts this with Netflix's Democratic-leaning leadership and warns about growing media consolidation among a handful of companies.

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There are a lot of centrist in America today breathing a sigh of relief thinking thank goodness Paramount didn't get its hands on this. Paramount, controlled by the Ellison family, clearly closely aligned with Donald Trump, changing news organizations like CBS to be more pro Trump. So there were a lot of people worried that Paramount would get its hands on this. Netflix see it as much more apolitical, although one of its founders and co CEOs Reed Hastings is seen as more Democratic leaning. So that's a relief for some. But others are worried that that this is yet more and more consolidation of what we see, what we watch all day long in the hands of just a few tiny companies. So there is some concern.