{"id":430505,"date":"2026-08-12T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:38:15","slug":"paramounts-threat-to-leave-ca-over-warner-bros-merger-is-blackmail-ag-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430505\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount&#8217;s Threat To Leave CA Over Warner Bros. Merger Is &#8216;Blackmail,&#8217; AG Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;In a span of weeks, Paramount agreed to halt the merger until a court decision or until June 2027, asked for a November trial, and is now back with another attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through,&#8221; Bonta wrote Tuesday on X. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">In a span of weeks, Paramount agreed to halt the merger until a court decision or until June 2027, asked for a November trial, and is now back with another attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount has lost the plot as it continues to lose\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In a span of weeks, Paramount agreed to halt the merger until a court decision or until June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-430505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430505","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=430505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}