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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’

techdirt.com · 10dShare

Just so we’re clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There’s fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the “synergies” and innovative improvements promised on the front end of major media mergers mean absolutely nothing. Especially in a country dead-set on defanging its labor and consumer protection regulators. […]

First report: History Is Paramount: As The Last Warner Bros Merger Proved, A Legal Victory Is No Guarantee Of A Happy Ending — deadline.com, 13d