Block the $111 Billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery Merger

I am writing to urge you to block the proposed $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery. This mega-merger poses serious threats to competition, consumer choice, and content quality that warrant your strongest opposition. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has already raised significant antitrust concerns about this deal, warning that it is "not a done deal" and faces substantial regulatory hurdles. His concerns are well-founded. Major corporate consolidation of this scale typically results in increased prices for consumers, lower wages for workers, reduced competition in the marketplace, limited consumer choice, and lower quality content. These are precisely the harms that antitrust laws were designed to prevent. What makes this merger particularly troubling is the apparent lack of rigorous federal oversight. AG Bonta has criticized the federal government for appearing to rubber-stamp the deal with the Ellison family, whom President Donald Trump has called "good friends." When the federal government withdraws from its traditional regulatory role, state-level action becomes even more critical to protect consumers and competition. Paramount CEO David Ellison claims the merger is "pro-competitive and good for the creator," arguing it gives the creative ecosystem more places to sell content. However, consolidating two major media companies into one entity does the opposite. It reduces the number of independent buyers in the market, giving creators fewer options and less negotiating power. It concentrates control over what content gets made and distributed, limiting the diversity of voices and perspectives available to audiences. AG Bonta has confirmed that multiple states are interested in investigating this merger, similar to the coalition approach used in other major antitrust cases. I urge you to join this effort and use every tool at your disposal to block this deal. The time to act is now, before assets become intermingled and the merger becomes harder to unwind. Our media landscape needs more competition, not less.