• [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Highly leveraged company hemorrhaging money buys struggling business also hemorrhaging…

    Sounds like a great idea.

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      2 months ago

      Sadly it primarily isn’t about money, but influence for paramount/larry ellison unlike the Netflix deal would have been.

      buys struggling business also hemorrhaging

      Imo over the long run WBD could have pulled themselves out of the debt hole they got sattled with after the At&t spin-off. Maybe just not fast enough for the taste of public markets. But i think fundamentally there was a market to support them and their products are good enough.

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    2 months ago

    Remember after 2001 when the Government went to Hollywood and said they need to make more patriotic films? Pepperidge Farms remembers…