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David Ellison’s Bid To Control Warner Bros. Hits The Rocks

Defector 04 August 2026 14h ago
David Ellison’s Bid To Control Warner Bros. Hits The Rocks
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Until a month ago, everything was going great for David Ellison and his plan to control American cultural production . He'd successfully made Paramount an outer arm of the Trump administration, with all the lucrative sinecures and harrowing moral and journalistic compromises that come with such an arrangement. Ellison's smooth ascent to power took a little bump when he lost the initial bidding war
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