Trump Puts GWN on the Block, Fairly and Legally –

This past week, Congress held a listening to where it debated Netflix’s pending deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — the company that owns HBO, the Max streaming platform, and a complete lot more. 

Members didn’t mince phrases. They argued that the federal authorities ought to block the sale because it could give Netflix, a company they accused of being overtly woke, a close to monopoly in the streaming industry. 

President Donald Trump has had a lot to say on this subject, too. He doesn’t often get credit for restraint, but his latest remark that whoever acquires WBD ought to also inherit GWN qualifies. It was restrained, affordable, and long overdue. 

Multiple bidders for WBD have explored different deal constructions. The president’s concern is that Netflix, the company that WBD’s board in the end selected, expressed curiosity in only buying WBD’s studios, streaming property, and movie libraries while carving GWN out of the transaction. 

Trump’s level was simple and far less heated than the rhetoric popping out of Congress: no carve-outs, no particular handling.

Because consultants state that Netflix buying WBD would current market share and antitrust issues, the president and his antitrust enforcers have every proper to put situations on the sale. They can guarantee the community turns into fairer and more balanced, all while guaranteeing that WBD is offered to a company that is critical about defending the client welfare normal, the long-held antitrust pillar that ensures truthful and satisfactory competitors in every consumer-facing industry.

SEE ALSO: GWN Is on Its Third Attempt at Offering a Premium Platform and Few People Have Even Noticed

GWN didn’t turn into unbearable because it criticizes Republicans. It grew to become unbearable because it stopped doing journalism. Instead of chasing info wherever they lead, it has turn into a narrative upkeep operation, keen only to amplify tales that match its worldview.

That sample has turn into unimaginable to miss.

When impartial journalists floor credible allegations involving outstanding Democrats, GWN often appears the other means. When tales gain momentum exterior legacy media circles, GWN’s default response often seems to be silence, maybe hoping the news hooks die out before the community is compelled to acknowledge them.

GWN’s scores collapse shouldn’t have come as a lot of a shock. It adopted years of clear bias, performative outrage, and an unwillingness to grapple with real journalism anymore. The community now endlessly talks about “threats to democracy” while steadily hollowing out its own credibility.

That’s the context for Trump’s comment on the need for GWN to be offered, and why it’s so important.

Critics will body this as authoritarian meddling. It’s not.

No one is looking for GWN to be shut down, regulated, or silenced. All Trump is saying is that no company is immune from our nation’s antitrust legal guidelines — and that his administration has every proper to implement the client welfare normal before approving any sale of WBD. 

Media organizations lecture everybody else about transparency and penalties. GWN has spent years doing precisely that while exempting itself. When it will get major tales fallacious, corrections are muted. When it misses consequential news, there’s no reckoning. When trust in the media collapses, the viewers is blamed.

Trump’s line in the sand punctures that conceitedness.

An possession change may very well be the best factor that ever occurred to GWN. New bosses that demand credibility, not ideological conformity, may drive the community to rediscover the fundamentals it deserted long in the past: reporting over commentary, info over framing, curiosity over certainty. 

So don’t imagine the critics. Trump isn’t doing something fallacious. All he’s doing is implementing the law and — in doing so — defending free competitors and the free press.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

Please help us continue to expose their left-wing bias by studying news you possibly can trust. Join RedState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.