{"id":399426,"date":"2026-07-15T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:05:08","slug":"block-the-merger-california-ag-rob-bonta-on-12-states-suing-to-stop-paramount-warner-mega-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399426\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlock the Merger\u201d: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Democratic-led states led by California sued this week to block Paramount Skydance\u2019s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount is run by David Ellison, whose father, Larry Ellison, is the billionaire founder of Oracle and a prominent ally and financial backer of President Donald Trump. Under the proposed deal, CNN and CBS News, streaming services HBO Max and Paramount+, as well as film and television studios, would all be combined under a single entity controlled by the Ellisons. The states\u2019 lawsuit comes after the Trump administration approved the megamerger last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proposed merger breaks the law,\u201d says California Attorney General Rob Bonta. \u201cIt\u2019s anti-competitive. It will raise prices. It will lower quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve Democratic-led states led by California sued this week to block Paramount Skydance\u2019s $111 billion acquisition of Warner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-399426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}