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The left declares war on Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery merger

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The left won’t let the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger happen without a fight. And California, to no one’s surprise, is leading the charge.

Americans watched Netflix circle a wounded Warner Bros. Discovery last year with interest, not alarm. Hollywood wondered: Would the streaming service turn the fabled film studio into a “content” assembly line? 

That possibility didn’t spur political action. But now, it’s game on, as the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger nears the finish line.

And it’s all about partisanship.

Earlier this year, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Amy Klocuchar pressed Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to retain records connected to the merger, as well as any ties with the Trump White House.

More recently, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Adam Schiff brought up “national security risks” tied to the deal’s fiscal connections with Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.

Now, 12 Democratic attorneys general are rolling up their sleeves, filing suit to stop the $110 billion merger between the Hollywood parties, with California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta as the tip of the legal spear.

Bonta warned of dystopian results that would impact “audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat........

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