Friends, my latest article is hot off the presses (which exist mainly in my mind, and are VERY hot!). I tackle the issue of Netflix's proposed takeover of Warner Brothers, which I find...appalling. See what you make of my point of view.
A Pox on the House of Netflix!
The
recent announcement that Warner Brothers, a Hollywood institution for
over a century, will
be acquired by Netflix,
one of the wokest Big Tech companies around, should set off alarm
bells for anyone who cares about the future of America and our
popular culture. The Trump Administration simply cannot allow this
merger from leftist Hades (much worse than regular Hades) to proceed.
Netflix's
catalog of offenses against decency and traditional values is
voluminous. Take, for instance, its trumpeting of the trans
agenda...to
kids, no less!
Netflix's constant nods to identity
politics,
moreover, make much of its programming unwatchable to anyone who
didn't ooze “joy” the moment Kamala(!) became the Democratic
Party annointee for president... Meanwhile, Netflix's fascination
with leftist narratives, from climate
change
to “undocumented”
immigrants,
has laid bare its ideological
bias.
These manifold sins, in combination with the low quality and limited
scope of Netflix's offerings, made it an easy decision for me to cut
the (digital) cord to Netflix years ago, and I've never looked back.
Warner
Brothers, sadly, is proving less discerning. For reasons that beggar
belief, it has accepted an inferior offer from Netflix, spurning a
much larger bundle of cash from
Paramount,
the entertainment giant piloted by David Ellison, the son of Larry
Ellison, who is, in case you've forgotten, an open and shameless
supporter of (gasp!) President Donald Trump. Hmm. Now that seems odd:
a mainstream Hollywood studio has chosen to climb into bed with a
famously liberal streaming service, and the financial interests of
Warner Brothers' shareholders be damned! Nothing fishy there. The
fact that Warner
Brothers controls CNN,
a failed news network that nonetheless manages to irritate Trump and
Republicans on a regular basis, might help to explain why the
Ellisons and Paramount had to be denied. The last thing some people
want is news networks that report the news, as opposed to
TDS-inspired fever dreams.
Luckily,
there is hope that this freakish union can be thwarted before
American popular culture succumbs once and for all to “progressive”
degeneracy. For one thing, Pam
Bondi's DOJ,
and more specifically its antitrust
division,
will have something to say about whether the proposed Warner
Brothers/Netflix merger harms competition in the entertainment
industry and/or represents an illegal monopoly. There are ample
reasons to think
that it does.
President Trump has
expressed concern
on this point.
What's
more, Warner Brothers' shareholders, and other interested parties,
can pursue legal action to prevent the merger by arguing that it
pointedly ignored, or even deliberately violated, the fiduciary
obligation of Warner Brothers' executives, if they sell the company,
to seek the best possible deal and the highest possible price.
Paramount made six
separate offers
to Warner Brothers, each more generous than the last, but in the end
Warner Brothers' CEO, David Zaslav, spurned the Ellisons and inked an
agreement with the people who brought us Wet
Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
instead.
Very
logical! Nice stewardship of the Warner Brothers legacy, Dave.
And
who needs money, anyway? It's highly overrated, from what I hear.
We
can only hope that these political, legal, and financial
countermeasures to the proposed Warner Brothers/Netflix merger manage
to head off this unholy alliance before it's too late. Otherwise, you
could find yourself paying
more and more
for “entertainment” that is worse and worse, and which doesn't
even pretend
to promote or respect the values you hold dear. As Bugs Bunny (a
Warner Brothers property) would say, that's “what's up, Doc”, and
the sooner we organize ourselves to avert this calamity, the better!
Dr.
Nicholas L. Waddy is a history professor at SUNY Alfred and blogs at:
www.waddyisright.com.
He appears on the Newsmakers show on WLEA/WYSL.
And here it is at Townhall:
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/12/13/a-pox-on-the-house-of-netflix-n2667823
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And don't miss out on this week's Newsmakers show, which features none other than me! Brian and I cover U.S./EU tensions, the heartening Republican victory in Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, the resilient Trump economy and the phony "affordability" crisis, the seizure of the oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, the tremendous decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Netflix/Warner Brothers boondoggle, and Time Magazine's homage to the "architects of A.I.", as well as A.I.'s potential impact on the job market.
Holy moly! Is there anything we didn't cover? Hardly seems so!
https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-12-13-25/
In other news, Republican efforts to redistrict their way to an enhanced, or at least stable, majority in the House of Representatives have been dealt a major setback, as Indiana state senators, including a majority of Republicans (!), voted against a plan that would have, or could have, added two more seats to the GOP tally. Why would Republicans balk? Apparently they felt "bullied", the poor dears, and they find the idea of mid-cycle redistricting icky and impolite. Well, Democrats have been gerrymandering their brains out for decades...so much so that they have precious little left to gerrymander, so why can't Republicans see the writing on the wall? Midwestern pride? Homespun self-satisfaction? Maybe even a touch of closet TDS? I don't know the answer, but I hope cooler heads prevail and Indiana revisits this issue soon.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/12/trump-signals-support-for-primary-challenges-after-indiana-gop-rejects-redistricting-bill/
