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500 Words
500 WordsOct 8, 2026
#08 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT
The eighth story in a series
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 8, 2026
Right On Cue: Here Comes The Skydance/Paramount Layoffs
You can set your watch to it.Major media companies insist they simply have to merge to create all manner of amazing new "consolidative synergies." The debt from the acquisitions then result in brand and company cannibalization as labor and consumers are forced to carry the load. The net result is mass layoffs, higher prices, and...
consolidationdavid ellison
500 Words
500 WordsOct 1, 2026
#07 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT
The 7th story in a series.
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 23, 2026
‘Independent CNN Oversight Board’ To Be Hand Picked By Paramount
Earlier this week we noted how California Democrats fecklessly folded to Paramount's demands and settled the 12-state antitrust lawsuit against Paramount's $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. We also noted how the conditions affixed to the deal are largely pathetic, and generally consist of a lot of performative fluff Paramount itself recommended and California AG...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 4, 2026
Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
Just so we're clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There's fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the "synergies" and innovative improvements promised on the front end of major media mergers mean absolutely nothing. Especially in a country dead-set on defanging its labor and consumer protection regulators.To...
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Plush Diagnosis
Plush DiagnosisAug 3, 2026
The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.
plush diagnosisthe new york times
Techdirt
TechdirtJul 28, 2026
Paramount Merger Gets Further Delayed, And Things Could Get Expensive
Just as Larry Ellison and Paramount executives had worried, the state antitrust challenge to their $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers has resulted in significant delays that could prove terminal.Two weeks ago California and eleven other states filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the merger, pointing out that the consolidation would undermine market competition, resulting...
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Fruity Birds
Fruity BirdsJul 14, 2026
Matthew McConaughey, Youtuber
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Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerJan 22, 2012
Die, Hollywood, die!
Paul Graham's Y-Combinator request for startups that will kill Hollywood has opened up a can of exploding radioactive mega-worms - and this time, they're angry. In the wake of the Internet industry's fight against SOPA and PIPA, he posed the problem: The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're resorting to such tactics. [...] How do you kill the movi
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