Tom Steyer Believes Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amounts to a “Right-Wing Takeover of Media”

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate tells THR he would support a lawsuit from the Attorney General to stop David Ellison from owning CNN. He also believes tax credits are only part of the Hollywood solution.As Paramount and California’s most powerful prosecutor volley about the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, the man vying to be the state’s top official has a clear message: it can’t stand. Tom Steyer, the billionaire progressive currently running third in the seven-person gubernatorial race, says he would support a lawsuit against the merger brought by California Attorney General Rob Bonta (or any potential successor). He also said he...