Consolidation Crisis: What Paramount Skydance's Purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Means, and How to Stop it (opens in new tab)

Illustrations by Chantall Veerman.Paramount Skydance is trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Amidst a million more pressing political issues, this one seems quaint, even with billions of dollars at stake. Who cares if the Paramount is the logo before the next Batman movie and Game of Thrones spinoff? The American mainstream cultural world is so corrupted and corporatized, it can be tempting to ignore this deal with cynicism or apathy. But the news matters, the movies matter, labor matt...