The Keith Edwards Show - John Oliver Exposes A Huge Red Flag Over Netflix / WB Deal

Starting point is 00:00:00 Here's a super underreported story and this affects you, it affects me, it affects our country because the monopolization of the media is going to be our downfall. Now, thankfully, we've got YouTube for now. So if you're here, hit like, subscribe because what's happening is that a select few billionaires are controlling everything you see and here. And thank God, at least John Oliver, who is in the middle of this. these mergers is calling it out. Now, what is happening is that Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers, saying here a big part of the concern of the likely impending merger between Netflix and

Starting point is 00:00:47 Warner Brothers is that when all is said and done, Netflix will be far the biggest streamer out there by a huge margin with more subscribers and more time spent on platforms than any other streamer, not including us right here on YouTube. The latest deal Netflix made today, poses an even bigger threat. So not only does Netflix want to buy Warner Brothers, but they're now going to have access to all of Sony's catalog. Said here, Netflix and Sony Pictures on Thursday announced a new global pay-one licensing deal.

Starting point is 00:01:19 All of Sony's feature films will now stream on Netflix globally after their full run in theaters and on demand. Sony's movies already stream on Netflix in the U.S. and other territories, but this new expanded deal means Sony's new releases will be available around the world, and it also gives Netflix access to some other older library and TV titles, which I guess sounds like a win for you and me. But what always happens with these sorts of deals is that eventually it means we're going to start paying more money.

Starting point is 00:01:50 Things just get more expensive. And do we really want one company, Netflix, to have so much power and so much control over what you and I see and hear, what people get to produce, what films are made, what TV shows are about. I don't think, I mean, one of the great, one of the fail safes of our electoral system is that it isn't owned by anyone. Counties run their own elections, states oversee the elections, the presidential election is really something that happens in small, areas and then overwhelmingly goes to one count. That is the total opposite of the monopolization of our media where just a handful of people decide what's produced, what can be said,

Starting point is 00:02:45 what you can see. And I think we're already seeing now with CBS, that's not great because the same folks who bought CBS and now are saying things like the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on January 7th, Minneapolis suffered internal bleeding in the torso following the incident. Now, we don't know that that's true. We don't know if that's true. In fact, there's no evidence of that, but CBS was bought for a specific purpose so that they can do things like this and create the truth rather than tell the truth. And that's worrying because the same people who bought CBS now want us try to do this Netflix deal. Now Warner Brothers has rejected Paramount's offer, but, and this is where it's all connected to Trump, guess who has overseen?

Starting point is 00:03:39 Well, Pam Bondi has worked for the lobbyist Ballard. That's the same firm hired to lobby for both Paramount and Netflix, and she's now, of course, head of the Justice Department, overseeing all this shit, getting to decide what does and doesn't get prosecuted, what does and doesn't get looked at. by this administration. She very well may help Paramount acquire Warner Brothers. So though Warner Brothers is rejecting Paramount's offer,

Starting point is 00:04:11 this is not the end of the road. This is just a pause. And regardless, I guess I would much rather have Netflix's own Warner Brothers, knowing what we know. But truly, none of this is great. None of this is great that our media has turned into like four or five huge multi, multi, multi, multi billion dollar companies yet

Starting point is 00:04:35 control everything. And we're seeing in real time with CBS how that plays out. Now, thankfully, we've got John Oliver, who's at least saying, I'm not going to shut up. There are going to be question marks on all of this, right? Because it's very hard to justify this legally. Now, whether that makes it impossible for it to happen, that's an open question. But again, you can't waste time worrying about something that you're not going to listen to anyway. Right?

Starting point is 00:05:04 It feels like we're just going to do what we do. They're going to, whoever they are is going to have to realize either you ignore us like that irritating village or you're going to have to take us around the back of the woodshed. But I think we have like a different view of their job because I think what they think their job is is to stop us getting sued. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think their job is to make sure that when we get sued, we win. Right. And that part of it is everything that I love. When you know you're in trouble, the company's angry with you, your own lawyer.

Starting point is 00:05:34 I mean, Rebecca Ballant said Americans don't like mergers. They don't want a few giant companies controlling what they see and what they hear. We want choices, more choices. When these companies merge, things get better for the people at the top over and over again and worse for the rest of us. and it does get worse because, as I showed you, with that CBS propaganda tweet, folks know it's wrong. The New York's type editor, Barry Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call on Wednesday morning, according to the staffers who listened. Quote, there was a big internal dissension about the internal bleeding report here last night,

Starting point is 00:06:16 the CBS news staffer who was not authorized to speak publicly said. it was viewed as a thinly veiled anonymous leak by the Trump administration to someone who'd carried it online. Went on to say, quote, felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admins justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources at a network staffer. So that's the problem. That's the problem. And this problem's only going to get worse. Now, that is also why, like I said at the top, it is super important that we keep these independent sources going. So I'm here on YouTube, which is owned by a billion dollar corporation, but for now,

Starting point is 00:06:56 it's very independent. Thank God. I'm also on Spotify in case this ever gets corrupted. You should definitely follow up with a subscription on Spotify. It's all free. And we will, this year, really for me, is about making sure that we diversify the places that you can see me because I don't want to have any one master. And the only way you can make sure that no one controls you is by being everywhere. So though I'm currently monopolized on YouTube, it is my goal to make it so that I can be wherever you want to hear me. It's going to take a minute to get there. But please, please, please, please, understand what's happening is that billionaires, oligarchs and corporations are monopolizing what you see in here

Starting point is 00:07:47 and the only way to prevent this is by going straight to different sources which thankfully for now we have

The Keith Edwards Show - John Oliver Exposes A Huge Red Flag Over Netflix / WB Deal

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