David Folkenflik

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217 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard yesterday

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Trump vs. the media · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

It means that the Ellison family is voice-verified

which has struck a strong political alliance with President Trump in the last year and a half, well, I got to tell you, they will control two of our largest television news divisions. voice-verified

And so it's a real moment where going after these news outlets is a signal, as President Trump's chief broadcast regulator say, we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way. voice-verified

And that's the moment we find ourselves in, intensive coverage happening in the midst of intensive pressure. voice-verified

The NPR Politics Podcast · What is Trump's interest in Paramount's merger with WB? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

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So, I mean, it's just an extraordinary effort to bring together these two Hollywood titans, right? matched

These great names that have echoed for a century in Hollywood. matched

Think of under the same roof you would have Hollywood. matched

Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers Studios, HBO, and Showtime. matched

You'd have Paramount Plus and HBO Max as streamers, and you'd have the nation's most watched broadcast TV network in CBS under the same roof as like 50 plus basic cable channels. matched

There are probably a whole bunch of other units I'm not even mentioning, but it is an extraordinary constellation of entertainment assets that would all be under the Ellison family. matched

And CBS News and CNN would be under the same roof and presumably to some degree significantly integrated. matched

So Paramount actually was part of an $8 billion deal just approved by the Trump administration a year ago. matched

They were taken over by David Ellison, who had run Skydance Media, a Hollywood producer who'd done Mission Impossible movies, among others. matched

And really the money behind him is Larry Ellison, who's the co-founder of Oracle and one of the wealthiest people walking the planet. matched

So they want in short time to take over not only Paramount, which they did in just an $8 billion deal, and now in Warner in a deal valued at $111 billion. matched

And they're making the argument that they need this scale. matched

They need this scale not to compete just in Hollywood, but compete against the new titans of the entertainment field. matched

And those are actually digital titans. matched

So you're thinking about Netflix, you're talking about Amazon, and you're talking about Apple. matched

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