The Elitist Media appear to circle the wagons as the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger approaches, terrified that CNN might face editorial standards approaching fairness. Perhaps this explains why news of the California-led Democrat lawsuit to block the deal was left off of the evening news on ABC and NBC.
The CBS Evening News did cover the lawsuit. Here is that brief in its entirety, as aired on Monday, July 13th, 2026:
WATCH: @CBSEveningNews was the sole network evening newscast to report the Democrat-led lawsuit to block the Paramount-WBD deal.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: Some news tonight concerning Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News. 12 states filed an antitrust suit today aiming to… pic.twitter.com/hQP4PzMW01
TONY DOKOUPIL: Some news tonight concerning Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News. 12 states filed an antitrust suit today aiming to block the roughly $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery. The state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the deal would create a monopoly and undermine competition, violating a century-old law. Paramount Skydance argues the opposite, that the merger would increase jobs and increase consumer choice. Government regulators in several other countries have signed off and so has the U.S. Department of Justice.
There is more to the story than Dokoupil could cram into that brief towards the end of their A-block. Per NPR:
A dozen states, led by California, are suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios, television newsrooms, and other entertainment properties.
"The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the suit, which was filed in federal court in California's Northern District.
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The other states involved in the lawsuit are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington. An overlapping cadre of Democratic state attorneys general have sued to block the takeover of local TV giant Tegna by Nexstar, the nation's largest owner of television stations.
“Overlapping cadre” is how NPR roundabout disclosed that the lawsuit is filed exclusively by Democrat attorneys general- but at least they disclosed it. And this disclosure is very important.
The crown jewel of this merger, at least as far as the Elitist Media are concerned, is CNN. As our very own Curtis Houck previously exposed, the media (and their self-appointed hall monitors) are terrified that CNN might become “MAGAfied”:
(Oliver) Darcy argued “CNN staffers have every reason to be worried” and predicted it’ll undergo a “MAGA-fication” akin to what he said has happened at CBS.
As Curtis notes, there is no factual basis to these fears. The “MAGA-fication” of CBS did not materialize. In addition to the many examples provided by Curtis, I know this firsthand because I am still watching Margaret Brennan ply her trade on Sundays.
As I pointed out on the NewsBusters Podcast, the left want to preserve and retain their Regime Media. Conversely, the media would like to continue to operate as a Regime Media for Democrats, where anything Donald Trump gets a 93% negative spin and the Hunter Biden laptops (or Platner Totenkopf tats) of the world get suppressed into oblivion per secula seculorum. Thus, the introduction of any standards in news reporting gets hysterically smeared as “MAGA-fication.”
This is part of the reason why ABC and NBC kept this story off their evening news. It is a story about Democrats wanting to control the flow of information to the American public.
