The most concerning aspect for me is the obvious and conspicuously-timed consolidation of these companies under David Ellison. Within the past few months he's taken control of Paramount, CBS, The Free Press, and now he's working on Warner Bros.

From everything I've seen he's basically an ideologue, and has already re-structured CBS to align with his vision.

Just something that seems very out in the open yet kind of pushed off to the side.

Back to the spoils system [1] baby! Hope you have a lot of capital and a tent to camp the White house lawn while you wait for your appointment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

Aren't all of the super rich ideologues? Ellisons father Larry for sure is. So is Ruppert Murdoch.

The only interesting thing about David Ellison is that his politics are different (slightly to the center) from his father. That's uncommon in those circles.

https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2025/12/03/how-the-ellis...

> How the Ellison Empire is Killing America’s Democratic Media

Don't forget that the Ellisons have a 15% stake in TikTok's American business as well!

Yes, and he will control CNN just prior to the first midterms runoffs, this is all part of a plan.

The Free Press wasn't worth anything, it's a blog with marginal readership. The creepy part is that Bari Weiss, a dimwit, was given $200M for that blog, put in charge of CBS News, and made a political commissar of all these new Oracle media properties with the brand names that Boomers love.

This thread is using it as an opportunity to scream about Trump, but Democrats will be all in on this. They have the same funders and the same interests. The NYT is the outlet that legitimized Weiss in the first place, a woman whose only previous interest was claiming that Palestinians were harassing her on college campuses by being there, and trying her best to get them expelled and fired. The Democrats were no opposition to the genocide; it began under their watch, they fully funded and shielded it, and they happily rounded up protesters. They'll be overjoyed to accept Ellison attention and Ellison cash.

I told all of you not to buy Oracle. Awful company, awful people, awful product.

Economic consolidation is one thing, consolidating under a malign foreign ideology is another. Definitely worrying.