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Paramount’s $111 Billion Bid For Warner Bros. Discovery Hits A Wall: The Complete Timeline
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of DC Studios, HBO, CNN, and Cartoon Network, remains legally frozen inside Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition attempt after a federal judge scheduled the antitrust trial that will decide the deal’s fate for March 2027. The ruling, issued Tuesday by Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern Distr…
Schreier’s Blizzard “Truth” Video Is Drama Farming, Not Journalism
Jason Schreier put out a new video defending his Activision Blizzard reporting, and we have to ask a simple question after watching it: where’s the proof?
The Ark Season 1 Delivers Low-Budget Soap Opera Sci-Fi With Some Heart Underneath The Flaws
Devlin and Glassner’s “The Ark” premiered on SYFY in February 2023, and the show is still going three seasons later, with Season 3 launching July 29 on the network and streaming on Electric Entertainment’s ElectricNOW app. Devlin posting about the new season prompted a catch-up watch, and Season 1 sets the tone the rest of the series builds on: heavy on…
Re-reading Dragonflight: How It Holds Up
Dragonflight holds up remarkably well, more than half a century after Analog first ran it as a two-part serial. McCaffrey likes her big words. The vocabulary is dated enough in places that you might genuinely have to look one up mid-chapter, but that’s part of the charm of her prose rather than a knock against it. It reads like a writer who trusted her …
The Best Writer in America Nobody Was Reading: A John M. Ford Retrospective
When John M. Ford died in his Minneapolis apartment on September 25, 2006, at the age of forty-nine, the working writers of his generation reacted like they had lost a compass. Robert Jordan, a lifelong close friend, called Ford “the best writer in America, bar none.” Neil Gaiman called him “my best critic ... the best writer I knew.” Patrick Nielsen Ha…