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Elizabeth Warren Criticizes Paramount Skydance Merger

Updated 2026-09-19 20:25 UTC 1 source Negative

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren warns that allowing the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. could be a ‘massive mistake,’ citing President Trump’s ban on CNN from the White House as a sign of potential regulatory issues.

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Variety

Elizabeth Warren Says it Would be a ‘Massive Mistake’ for Rob Bonta to Settle Lawsuit With Paramount as Trump Bans CNN from White House: ‘This Is a Dangerous Merger’

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Saturday morning issued a warning that President Donald Trump’s recent banning of CNN from the White House is a sign of things to come if Paramount Skydance settles with the states and is allowed to merge with Warner Bros. “As Trump tries to ban C

2026-09-19 20:10 UTC

Variety

‘The Smell of Apples’ Review: A Sun-Soaked but Chilling Child’s-Eye View of Apartheid-Era Privilege and Denial

Every surface period detail is present and correct to an eerie degree in “The Smell of Apples”: the gawkily short seasonal school uniforms, the ickily patterned kitchen tiles, the garden chairs like steel satellite dishes, the orange-and-brown daisy print that anyone of a certain age wil

2026-09-19 20:14 UTC