Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America

https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/larry-ellison-donald-trump-paramount-skydance-merger.html

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EntropyFlux@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 359d (2 replies)

Larry Ellison and his ilk of oligarchs are a threat to America. No one should have that much money or power.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 34 pts · 359d

Nah, ten years ago they were a threat to America. Now they're actively (and successfully) killing it.

skvlp@feddit.nl · 24 pts · 359d

Probably a threat to the world

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 359d (2 replies)

The elder Ellison is covering most of the cash to close the Skydance-Paramount merger, which will give him significant control over the new company and a chance to carry out, as he detailed in federal filings, a wholesale transformation of CBS in his vision—including broadcasts of complimentary PSAs for Trump administration initiatives.

This is good information. With the beginning of the Foxification of CBS, we can stop thinking of it as a credible news source and add it to our digital and mental Block lists.

ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 359d (1 reply)

You mean your parents' TV's channel block list.

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 359d

Boffum

Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 359d (1 reply)

CBS has always been conservative-friendly. They have a lot of segments that are designed to give Republicans a megaphone and criticize Dems for whatever was going on in the world. All with the facade of treating them equally instead of just reporting the truth.

Is CBS the most conservative friendly legacy media that's not Fox? Is that why this is going through?

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 358d

Is CBS the most conservative friendly legacy media that’s not Fox? Is that why this is going through?

You might find the answer to these questions by reading the article.

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 359d

Who could have predicted it?

No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org · 11 pts · 359d

Fuck everything ai and this asshole especially

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d (2 replies)

Why post an article that I can only read half of?

return2ozma@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 359d

Here you go paywall removed

https://archive.is/rjAFE

hogmomma@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d

I was able to read the whole thing. Did you try deleting your cookies and clearing your browser's cache?

Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 359d (1 reply)

Rupert is going to be upset.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 358d

Not for long.