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Well, it’s official: Netflix leapfrogged Paramount Skydance and Comcast to become the winning bidder in the battle for the Warner Bros. empire. The news on Friday came with an uneasy sigh of relief for many. Netflix has its problems, the thinking goes, but at least it stops the Ellison family from owning yet another conglomerate.

What’s wrong with the Ellisons? Two years ago, Larry and David Ellison’s biggest collective media holding was the production company that made Top Gun . Now, they own all of Paramount, they’re attempting to buy all of Warner Bros. Discovery, and Larry Ellison is separately involved in a deal to buy TikTok. All along, the family has sh

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