Eric Bolduc

@ericfinalfantasy.bsky.social

Climate change activist, renewable energy advocate, and one of the many anti-Trump and anti-MAGA people fighting for democracy.

I ask you to lend your voice to peacefully and non-violently support industry, protect freedom of speech, creative freedom and our industry workers, and protect consumers. Let’s keep the momentum going. 🙏🤍

By doing so, in solidarity with thousands of industry workers I am asking for them to intervene in the Paramount Skydance Corporation’s (“Paramount”) anticipated acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (“WBD”) in the UK alongside the US industry. More at www.blockthemerger.com #BlockTheMerger

The merger is frozen. The fight is not over. | #BlockTheMerger

Paramount has agreed to pause its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until a federal court rules on the state Attorneys General's antitrust case — no later than June 2027. See where the case sta...

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Today I wrote to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Department for Culture, Media and Sport and to the Deputy Director of TV and Broadcasting, Department for Culture, Media and Sport asking them to issue a Public Interest Intervention Notice under section 42 of the Enterprise Act 2002.

Because of the hard work by countless orgs, individuals and courageous state AGs, a hostile takeover that was thought to be inevitable +“too big to fail” is now being recognized as broadly harmful to the media ecosystem. Not only those in filmmaking & news gathering - but to the general public. 4/n

The Ellison OpEd also functioned to distract from the fact that the failing effort is Larry Ellison’s agenda (&money) - *cultural influence and narrative-shaping power*. Also deflects from the financial instability of the financing of the takeover - Oracle stock price tied to OpenAI contract$ 3/n

AP headline 

BUSINESS
Larry Ellison guarantees $40.4 billion in Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The OpEd also reinforced the Ellison agenda to Bari Weiss/TheFreePress-ify CNN. While simultaneously attempting to deceive readers of the OpEd that the partisan demolition of CBS News, CBS Radio, 60 Min, installation of a Government-approved content regulator “ombudsman” are a positive thing. 2/

Text from David Ellison OpEd 

Great news organizations like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle. That requires newsrooms that reflect the whole world, not one side of it. And it requires independence. Our
journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause.
These were founding principles for both CNN and CBS News, for legends like Ted Turner and Edward
R. Murrow, and it is exactly that kind of independence that has always fueled the greatness of "60 Minutes."