State Attorneys General Sue to Stop Paramount Skydance's Corrupt Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery ⁠84%

By Newswire Editor⁠94%

7/13/2026, 11:03:08 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Indoctrination, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.6% saturation with 267 hits. Analysis detected 2,215 faulty-reasoning hits from 657 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠84% (3,582 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.60% of the article peer group.

On Monday, 12 state attorneys general launched an antitrust suit to block the proposed $111 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. 
Discovery. 
California Attorney General Rob Bonta led the multistate lawsuit, joined by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. 
“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” Bonta said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. 
The combination of these two massive entertainment and news companies would create a media colossus with CBS, CNN, HBO, Nickelodeon and the Warner Bros. and Paramount film studios — among other major media properties — all under one roof. 
The deal’s announcement in 2025 spurred widespread protests led by a coalition of First Amendment advocates, unions, consumer-rights groups, and Hollywood actors and directors. 
Free Press and others opposing the mega-merger explain that the deal would give one company the power and incentives to raise prices, lay off thousands of workers and limit consumer options, while giving the Trump-aligned Ellison family the power to shape public discourse at the president’s direction in exchange for the administration’s regulatory approval. 
That’s why administration officials like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have openly rooted for the Ellisons to obtain CNN, based on their documented promises to make “sweeping changes” to the network to please Trump. 
State attorneys general can sue to block mergers that violate federal and state antitrust laws. 
In March, California and New York attorneys general led a multistate coalition in suing to block the merger of broadcasters Nexstar and Tegna. 
Typically, state attorneys general have coordinated such antitrust suits with their federal counterparts at the Justice Department, but the Trump DoJ has shirked its consumer-protection duties in mergers involving favored Trump allies. 
Free Press and allies delivered hundreds of thousands of petitions opposing the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. 
Discovery deal to Attorney General Bonta’s office in May, and hosted rallies against Paramount’s corruption in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. 
Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. 
González said: 
“Today we thank these state attorneys general for listening to the hundreds of thousands of people who have taken action to oppose this mega-merger. 
This deal would result in higher prices and fewer choices for consumers. 
It would open the door to wholesale layoffs across the news and entertainment industry and lead to less competition and more propaganda in news coverage. 
“President Trump and his cronies want to rush this anti-competitive deal through because David Ellison has demonstrated time and again that he will leverage his control of his media empire to silence Trump’s critics and amplify MAGA propaganda. 
That’s corruption, plain and simple. 
Any merger of this scale would diminish creativity and diversity in entertainment, weaken journalists’ ability to hold those in power accountable and further endanger our democracy. 
This is especially true when the Ellisons are in charge. 
To win approval for their takeover of CBS News, the Ellisons promised to gut hard-hitting reporting across the network — and have gleefully followed through. 
And they’ll do the same to undermine editorial independence at CNN if they gain control of the global news network. 
“The states’ challenge means that this corrupt merger is far from a done deal. 
While the administration won’t take a stand against the president’s billionaire cronies, we can still stop the Ellisons’ power grab. 
While Paramount is flaunting its corruption and toasting Trump officials, we’re standing with the workers and artists at the heart of the news and entertainment industries — and with the American people, who deserve a diverse and independent media system that works on their behalf, and against the self-interest of greedy billionaires and unethical politicians.” 
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657 words analyzed.

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