Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison has been buying up what's left of Hollywood and the corporate media (Paramount, CBS, HBO, CNN, Warner Brothers) for two reasons. One, he wants help his nepobaby son David (who looks like a foppish trust fund brat villain from an 80s ski comedy) pretend he's a savvy media mogul who wears big boy pants and does important, relevant things. Two, Larry wants to deliver a killing blow to whatever's left of U.S. corporate journalism, replacing the already extremely soggy and pathetic news efforts at CBS News and CNN with right wing agitprop and distracting infotainment. If the Ellisons can make a little money selling lowest common denominator Batman and Harry Potter AI slop in the process, all the better. But if they (whoops a daisy) destroy CBS and CNN, that's just two less news organizations around asking pressing questions like: why are U.S. billionaires such unrelenting sociopaths dedicated to the demolition of democracy? Larry and David are trying…
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