Resistance is not futile, no matter what the doomers say
California Attorney General Rob Bonta Locutus of Borg was wrong about resistance being futile, and so are our real-world demons of despair. For months, we were resigned to Paramount, run by a right-wing billionaire friendly with Donald Trump, would merge with Warner Bros./Discovery. Not only had Paramount ruined the Tiffany Network of CBS and its once-vaunted jewel, CBS News, but now it was going to destroy another news network, CNN. CBS News editor Bari Weiss was slated to take the same role at CNN. This is much what happened in Hungary; former prime minister Viktor Orbán, as head of government, had control over the public broadcaster, and had his cronies buy up private media so that all that Hungarians would read, see, or hear would be government-approved. We were all doomed, and Trump's state seizure was unstoppable. And then? Well. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, with a coalition of eleven other states, filed a lawsuit to stop the merger on antitrust grounds. The merger ...
