#Media Mergers

[dailyplanet-loislane]

CNN on the Block: A Risky Gamble for Warner Bros. Discovery?

[loislane-ana]

CNN on the Block: A Risky Gamble for Warner Bros. Discovery?

[firespirited]

You like nice little shows like Warehouse13 or Haven or the Sarah Connor Chronicles? You watched it the first time around by waiting up and watching it on network TV at 9pm, you thought there would be a dvd release, especially as some of them ended airing before the season was over. Nope.

You can either send money to an american to buy the episodes off amazon or itunes, you can find an imported second hand dvd set or you can find someone’s lovingly ripped version with part of the ads still clipped in. The media mergers left a bunch of rights up in the air, especially internationally so it’s just. not. available.

People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

[un-pearable]

legitimately anyone who is a self described fan of children’s cartoons over the age of 12 needs to watch Infinity Train. it explicitly bridges the gap between the tone, tropes, and storytelling limitations of Y7 and the level of complexity than we want from it. every single person writing pages long screeds about character development and nuance in shows that are primarily marketed at a younger audience but have significant meaning to older age groups would get so fuckin much out of the themes and story of Infinity Train, which is explicitly a story about those more complex themes.

it gamifies character development as part of it’s core conceit. each season gets more mature as it deals with more complex issues of morality and ethics and it’s still a silly epsiodic show with fun gags. it grows up as the story progresses with each anthologic installment giving you more complex interpersonal relationships and issues. there’s on screen cop murder. cults. incredibly gay coded music duo from the 80s that are the most divorced twenty year olds you’ve ever seen. a story that grows with you.

and you can’t fuckin watch it anywhere bc the animation industry is a puppet at the whims of investors in love with the impossible horizon

Infinity Train is the result of a decade of shows like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, of animators and artists’s growing desire to tell stories that grow with kids beyond their designated demographic in the American cultural conscience. and you can’t watch it.

they were going to talk about alzheimers. the thesis of infinity train is that animation is a medium, not a genre. a vehicle for exploring complex topics in a way that live action can’t. it’s a therapy train that traumatizes it’s riders more often than not. they covered everything from divorce’s impact on children to trans-coded identity crisis to the realities of a Lost Boys experience. what it means to be human. they were going to talk about alzheimers

it’s literally a vehicle for character development . it’s the midpoint on the spectrum between children’s media and mature writing. it is everything you seek out of fan fiction being explicit in the text. and you cant watch it bc it being animated means it’s worthless

[charliejaneanders]

Media consolidation is consistently harmful. It results in unhealthy markets, endless layoffs, a reduction in diversity and quality in cable news, less competition, and a mindless race to the bottom. Yet the need for competent media regulation and antitrust reform is somehow always a distant afterthought, deemed irrelevant by the seme gentlemen who stand to benefit from our apathy.

Techdirt telling it like it is

[movies-tv-more]

Movie Home Video Releases for September 26, 2023

[trulymadlykiki]

working in marketing means today’s price is not yesterday’s price

[fiercemillennial]

Cable Wars: DirecTV and Dish Merge – Is This the End of TV as We Know It?

Cable TV is shaking things up! DirecTV and Dish are merging, and it could mean big changes for how we watch TV. Is this the end of cable as we know it? 🤔 #cablewars #merger #streaming #fiercetrends #fiercemillennial

The future of television is about to get a whole lot more complicated. Remember those days when you’d sit down on the couch, flip through the channels, and settle in for a night of TV? Good times, right? Well, get ready to say goodbye to that familiar ritual. DirecTV and Dish, two of the biggest names in satellite television, have announced plans to merge, creating the largest pay-TV provider in…

[uniqueeval]

Top news of the day: Mamata Banerjee says Bengal Assembly will pass bill seeking capital punishment for rapists; ED fines DMK MP Jagathratchakan ₹908-crore in FEMA case

Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a gathering during the TMC Chhatra Parishad (students wing) foundation day celebrations in Kolkata on August 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Mamata Banerjee says Bengal Assembly will pass bill seeking capital punishment for rapists West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (August 28, 2024) said that a session…

[fandomaddictwut]

I’ve seen some people complaining about Channing Tatum/his accent in Deadpool & Wolverine, and I just want to set a few things straight.

Channing has been on the docket to play Gambit since 2005, but each and every time, the character was cut from the script, he had a prior contract, or the director kept getting replaced until the project was scrapped 4 years later with the Fox/Disney merger.

He has family in Louisiana and grew up in the bayous (albeit in rural Alabama). This character has meant something to him since CHILDHOOD when it comes to representation in media.

Gambit doesn’t speak SAE (Standard American English). He’s a street urchin from Acadia/New Orleans. He grew up speaking Cajun (a mix of Southern American, Canadian French, and España Spanish grammar applied to a mostly English vocabulary) and Louisiana French (an offshoot of Canadian French from Acadians).

Every person I’ve seen online who ACTUALLY GREW UP around people who speak Cajun, Creole, and/or Louisiana French has said that his accent is SPOT ON, maybe even a little too clear.

All this to say: if you can’t understand Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine, you’re not supposed to. That’s the bit: unless you’re used to those dialects and accents, you’re shit outta luck trying to parse it out without help. Hell, even Rogue, who grew up in the South, doesn’t know what he’s saying half the time.

[ejbarnes]

I'm glad that the current administration is finally (after decades of malign neglect) returning to taking the harm done by corporate mergers and acquisitions seriously. Media consolidation in particular is bad for workers employed in the field, bad for consumers, bad for the quality of art and the quality of information -- and bad for democracy. After this, maybe we can actually look further into breaking up some of these conglomerates à la AT&T (consent decree 1982).

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From the WGA:

"More than 100 days into our strike, as we continue to fight for the sustainability of our profession, events in Washington, D.C. provide an opportunity for writers to shine a light on one of the root causes of the strike: media consolidation. For decades, the WGA has advocated for stronger antitrust oversight, bringing attention to the ways that mergers and vertical integration in our industry – from AT&T-Time Warner to Warner Bros.-Discovery to Amazon-MGM to Disney-Fox – have consolidated the power of our employers and harmed writers as well as the diversity of content. In numerous reports and policy filings – including a new report called The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon and Netflix Will Take Over Media, released yesterday – the WGA has documented the threat to our industry from past and future consolidation and called for more aggressive antitrust enforcement. Our current strike highlights the urgency of the issue; studios gained power through anti-competitive consolidation and vertical integration and then used that power to push down wages and impose more precarious working conditions for writers while profiting off of their work, and currently – together – refuse to bargain a fair contract for writers to mitigate those harms. Last month, the FTC and DOJ jointly released proposed revisions to their Merger Guidelines, a policy document designed to guide law enforcement around consolidation. These new Draft Guidelines are part of an effort by these agencies to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. Compared with prior versions of Merger Guidelines, they give significantly more weight to the ways that mergers can be harmful and, for the first time, explicitly direct agencies and courts to consider how mergers can hurt workers. The Draft Guidelines have been released for public comment, and the FTC and DOJ want to hear from people who have been affected by consolidation – people like you.”

The FTC and DOJ are accepting comments on their revisions of the Merger Guidelines until September 18.

[mateushonrado]

How I feel after the recent news

Status Post #11122: You only had one job, Paramount.

[jjbizconsult]

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[thenewsfactsnow]

Reliance-Disney Merger: Ambani's Next Big Media Play

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), spearheaded by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, continue to be hungry for acquisition and consolidating its might in the business across sector. Reports now say that he is all set to acquire over 50 percent stake in Disney India, setting the stage for a colossal merger between the two media giants in the coming months, according to a report by Reuters. Reliable…

[headlinehorizon]

DWAC-Truth Social Merger: High-Stakes Deal Extends Deadline Amidst Scrutiny

In a dramatic turn of events, Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) shareholders have voted to extend the deadline for the merger with Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social. Explore the latest news surrounding this high-profile merger and the potential impact on the social media landscape.