{"id":300135,"date":"2026-02-20T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:53:07","slug":"opinion-the-fight-for-control-of-warner-bros-shouldnt-hinge-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300135\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The fight for control of Warner Bros. shouldn\u2019t hinge on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3H73GPVKUBBT5ARMCORAQRSZSI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The fight for control of Warner Bros. Discovery has taken on political and cultural significance because of the $70 billion company\u2019s role in American news and entertainment. But now that the bidding war between Netflix and Paramount Skydance <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/economy\/warner-bros-reopens-takeover-talks-with-paramount-after-receiving-waiver-from-netflix__;!!M9LbjjnYNg9jBDflsQ!G_96ittHNBjCGzofYC4Vop1W5QmLe2GEdKwUdArT1d-jJrI0Zs1YWdXGk6knVg2RcLVqxaH-J_BjNfDh7LHCKw$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has reopened<\/a>, it\u2019s worth emphasizing that only two factors should matter in choosing the winner: shareholder value and consumer harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fight for control of Warner Bros. Discovery has taken on political and cultural significance because of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5858,151493,146,85,46,151495,151494,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-300135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-editorial-board","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-partner-exclude","14":"tag-the-posts-view","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}