This story is about Oracle's Larry Ellison and his son's quest to reshape US media.
Their relationship grew warmer as David Ellison achieved professional success, they said. Larry Ellison has always considered himself wise about Hollywood, and one of his best friends, Steve Jobs, mentored the son about the business as well.
Larry Ellison was initially skeptical of Skydance, the Hollywood company that his son started and that bought Paramount. But he has told friends in recent years that he considers his son to be one of the smartest people in the business world, trusts his judgment and tends to agree with him on corporate matters, several people with knowledge of the Ellisons said.
Is Skydance/Paramount under Ellison ahead of other Hollywood firms in terms of successful development of profitable film/streaming properties? A quick look at the list of successes shows IP that was initially developed outside of Skydance ... Mission Impossible, Terminator, Star Trek, etc.
> Mr. Trump has privately said Larry Ellison assured him that he would turn CBS News, which the Ellisons took over when they bought Paramount, into a more conservative outlet, two people with knowledge of the president’s comments said.
Have mercy with the maga voters, because if that goes boom, their lives get significantly worse. You only have to look Midwest America for how things look like during an all-high Wall Street. I fear the fallout will be worse than the '30s, and I have doubts if the US can money print themselves from the ashes.
I don't want to play dr. Doom, but the signs aren't great.
So long.
lateforwork•2h ago
Soon, understanding what is truly happening in the United States may require turning to foreign outlets like the BBC.
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shimman•1h ago
Every single right we have is the result of constant struggle by the people dragging society forward at the defiance of the elites.
I mean look at something like Shay's Rebellion and read what the elites thought of it as the time, people were fighting back against actual tyranny and they were scared of the peasant revolt hurting their profits they had to rewrite a constitution that removed emancipation from over half the population while keeping all the actual control (creating the Presidency, courts, and senate while only giving the people one single house) for themselves.
I'm honestly amazed we have as many rights as we do now. It's a testament to humanity's innate desire toward freedom and this freedom has always expanded beyond what society claims to be capable of.
lateforwork•1h ago