As Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders prepared to cast their votes on the company’s proposed sale to Paramount, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) released a 13-minute video titled Warner Bros-Paramount Merger, the Corporate Propaganda Monopoly: Ellison Media Cartel DEEP DIVE. The WGA gathered a handful of media and antirust leaders for a Zoom press conference Wednesday on Rejecting the Paramount Skydance Bid: Why WBD Shareholders Must Vote ‘No’; and Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment and other groups announced plans to rally outside WBD’s New York headquarters.
Speakers will include NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander; and Oscar-winning documentarian David Borenstein.
The special meeting of shareholders, set for 10 am ET Thursday, is virtual and expected to be short. David Ellison‘s Paramount struck a deal in late February to acquire WBD for $31 a share in cash.
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