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I've never rooted for Comcast in my life, but even I know that they were best of a very bad bunch who had any chance at winning this bidding process.
There was NO good outcome from this sale, but Netflix is the worst possibility.
Say what you will about the Ellisons, they aren't actively trying to destroy cinema (just pervert it), nor are they running the biggest slop machine in existence, but Netflix is, on both accounts.
This isn't saying I think it would have been good if Paramount won, just less bad than Netflix, as at least HBO would have probably survived.
I'll take poor production quality and early show cancelations over right wing billionaire propaganda any day of the week. I don't understand why you would downplay the significance of the Ellisons taking over WB and TikTok simultaneously. It's clear what the intentions are.
Pick your poison.
The Ellisons will eventually fail at Paramount because the culture is largely against their brand of politics, and WB, HBO, etc. could have survived long enough to have be sold off once that happens.
Netflix is going to destroy a load-bearing structure of Hollywood for the sake of streaming slop.
But it's all speculation anyways, and none of it matters, since they opted for your choice of poison, not mine.
My choice would be a functional regulatory system that entirely prohibits harmful media consolidation and monopolistic behavior but that's not on the table. The next best choice is keeping neo-Nazis from controlling the airwaves as much as possible.