Speaker 1: California Democrat politicians are getting worried that their media propaganda
Speaker 1: machine is completely falling apart. That is why they're taking
Speaker 1: legal action against Warner Brothers and Paramount in their merger,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to use your taxpayer money to set
Speaker 1: up state government propaganda programs across California. We've got the
Speaker 1: details of what we're doing to fight back. This is
Speaker 1: totalitarian regime stuff. When they can't keep the truth from
Speaker 1: spreading organically, they try to create the propaganda machines with
Speaker 1: your money. I'm Carl Tomo, chairman of Reform California and
Speaker 1: a California state representative. We've always told you and we
Speaker 1: all know that the media is liberal. There is no
Speaker 1: journalism left in this country. They've been carrying the water
Speaker 1: for Democrat politicians for so many years, twenty years plus now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there are exceptions to the rule. There are some conservative
Speaker 1: outlets like Fox News and Newsmax, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: the Democrats have had glowingly favorable coverage from the media enterprise,
Speaker 1: whether it's Hollywood with entertainment productions that basically contain all
Speaker 1: sorts of woke narratives and themes to actual network and
Speaker 1: newspaper newsrooms that lie with a straight face. They completely lie,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking of I don't know, MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 1: But things are changing, and that's because well this little
Speaker 1: bad Boy and podcasts like the one you're watching right now.
Speaker 1: Technology has resulted in the fragmentation of media. A lot
Speaker 1: of these networks and entertainment companies have been losing a
Speaker 1: lot of money and as a result of that, they've
Speaker 1: had to shut down various news operations. They've lost ratings
Speaker 1: and viewers and listeners, they were losing subscribers, and as
Speaker 1: a result of all of that, they're starting to merge,
Speaker 1: if not completely, just fold. California Democrats are seeing this coming,
Speaker 1: and that's why they are desperately trying to save their
Speaker 1: propaganda machine. And if they can't save a private sector
Speaker 1: model of propaganda through the big media giants, then they're
Speaker 1: just going to create the state propaganda through your tax
Speaker 1: payer money. At Reform California, We've got the full story here,
Speaker 1: but I'm urging you to join the fight. We don't
Speaker 1: just inform you about what's going on. We call you
Speaker 1: to action. If you're sick and tired of you taxpayer
Speaker 1: money being abused. If you're sick and tired of having
Speaker 1: one sided media, then join our fight at Reform California.
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Speaker 1: our campaign to take back California from the insanity of
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Speaker 1: whole slate of state legislators to break the Democrats supermajority
Speaker 1: in Sacramento. And of course we've got a number of
Speaker 1: ballot measures that we're supporting this November, including the Yes
Speaker 1: on Prop thirty nine campaign for voter ID and Yes
Speaker 1: on Prop forty three campaign to make it harder for
Speaker 1: politicians to raise your taxes. So check out that website,
Speaker 1: Reform California dot org, sign up, volunteer, and ship in
Speaker 1: a contribution. So here's what's going on. You've had a
Speaker 1: major shift in media companies. They all start to consolidate
Speaker 1: because they can't financially afford to operate because so many
Speaker 1: viewers are leaving their networks they're just not interested in
Speaker 1: propaganda anymore. They're waking up and they're finding information and
Speaker 1: entertainment in other places. So there was a big merger.
Speaker 1: The most recent one is between Paramount Skydance, which owns
Speaker 1: CBS and a whole bunch of other properties in the
Speaker 1: media space, and Warner Brothers. And of course Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: owns CNN. We see the connection here. CBS News, CNN
Speaker 1: and Paramount Skydance, which is buying Warner Brothers. Is owned
Speaker 1: by a billionaire, David Ellison, who's seen as more conservative
Speaker 1: than liberal, and at CBS one of the properties that
Speaker 1: he owns in his media conglomerate. They become a little
Speaker 1: bit more fact based in their news coverage by hiring
Speaker 1: Bari Weiss, and she's gone in and house. You probably
Speaker 1: heard about some of the sob stories that some of
Speaker 1: the liberal reporters have been running out and saying that
Speaker 1: they've been laid off and fired, well because they're not journalists,
Speaker 1: and well CBS has been hamorrhaging a whole bunch of money. Anyway,
Speaker 1: The politicians don't like this merger because they think Ellison
Speaker 1: is too conservative. Here's Rob Bonta. Rob Bonta says he
Speaker 1: worries for CNN's future at Paramount, citing Barie Weiss's CBS revamp.
Speaker 1: So they know that with these mergers, their propaganda machine
Speaker 1: is threatened. So what have they decided to do. They've
Speaker 1: decided to take your government for their political benefit. They're
Speaker 1: weaponizing the attorney general offices in the Democrat states to
Speaker 1: try to sue to stop the merger. They're claiming anti trust.
Speaker 1: There's a monopoly if Warner Brothers in Paramount merge. The
Speaker 1: only monopoly we have here, honey, is liberal media is
Speaker 1: a monolith, a complete monopoly. They have one sided view
Speaker 1: of the world and feed one sided propaganda out there
Speaker 1: to the American people, and they disguise it as news.
Speaker 1: The fact that the market is starting to correct this nonsense,
Speaker 1: because these companies are losing money because people are turning
Speaker 1: them off because well, they don't want the propaganda. That
Speaker 1: is a good thing. It cleanses the monopoly view from
Speaker 1: the liberal media. Now I don't see any basis in
Speaker 1: this case. It's a harassment suit. They're going to try
Speaker 1: to get Ellison to commit to continue to fund and
Speaker 1: provide left leaning coverage at certain properties. That's what this
Speaker 1: is about. This is nothing but extortion. The suit won't
Speaker 1: prevail because of the media fragmentation, the concept of a
Speaker 1: monopoly in media that just doesn't exist anymore. And that's
Speaker 1: why the FCC, the Fiddal Communications Commission, has wisely updated
Speaker 1: its monopoly standards to say, look, you can have more
Speaker 1: than one TV station in the market because most people
Speaker 1: aren't watching TV anymore. They're getting information from you know what,
Speaker 1: it's the cell phone, or YouTube or a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other online and digital platforms. Digital and online has
Speaker 1: resulted in more competition, not less, and so the notion
Speaker 1: that these are monopoly trusts because of the consolidation of
Speaker 1: cable networks and broadcast studios, that's not going to fly,
Speaker 1: not with today's technology. If it was nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 1: oh sure, this lawsuit might have legs, but not today.
Speaker 1: And so as a result of the lawsuit, Paramount is
Speaker 1: considering leaving California, taking a bunch of jobs with them.
Speaker 1: Same fine, you want to harass us, intimidate us, extort us,
Speaker 1: go move to another state. And the Lieutenant governor in
Speaker 1: Tennessee actually sent a letter to Ellison saying, come on
Speaker 1: here to Nashville, set up your headquarters in our state.
Speaker 1: We won't harass you. We'll treat you with respect. And
Speaker 1: so the deputy governor, the lieutenant governor in Tennessee, Stuart
Speaker 1: mcwarter wrote in a letter quote, companies that choose Tennessee
Speaker 1: find more than a favorable business climate. They find a
Speaker 1: state committed to helping them succeed, not filing frivolous lawsuits
Speaker 1: against them because they want to manipulate news coverage. What
Speaker 1: I also saw was a separate lawsuit, a private lawsuit
Speaker 1: from a union, the Writer's Guild of America Sue's Paramount,
Speaker 1: claiming Warner's Brothers acquisition would take away jobs. Wait, you're
Speaker 1: telling me that a labor union is complaining about jobs
Speaker 1: being destroyed. That's like the devil complaining about sin. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why a lot of these media companies
Speaker 1: are going under is because the high cost of operating
Speaker 1: and all the unionized workers that they have to deal with.
Speaker 1: That's why productions in non union states are so much
Speaker 1: less expensive, and that's why production filming movie locations are
Speaker 1: moving to the non union states. Doesn't take a rocket
Speaker 1: scientist to figure that out. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom and
Speaker 1: the politicians in California aren't just suing to disrupt this merger.
Speaker 1: They're also trying to provide your taxpayer money to Hollywood
Speaker 1: studios media outlets so that they can prop up propaganda
Speaker 1: because obviously it's no longer financially penciling out because people
Speaker 1: are leaving tuning out CNN and MSNBC. They're cutting off
Speaker 1: their subscription from the New York Times and Sacramento b
Speaker 1: and the propaganda papers, and so what Newsom and the
Speaker 1: Democrats are doing is number one is they're offering tax credits.
Speaker 1: The latest was a Hollywood tax cre but then even
Speaker 1: that new sum gave a billion dollar, seven hundred fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar tax credit to his buddies in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1: But then he just signed a budget that screwed it up.
Speaker 1: Talk about incompetence. You can't even execute your grift and
Speaker 1: your money laundering to these media outlets with these tax
Speaker 1: credits properly. So he's going to come back and he's
Speaker 1: going to fix this, mark my word. But then you
Speaker 1: also have a bill Assembly Bill twenty two, twenty two
Speaker 1: from Chris Ward. This is a bill that I did
Speaker 1: a previous podcast on and I oppose, and I voted against,
Speaker 1: and it would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in
Speaker 1: funding for local newsrooms. So they not only have this
Speaker 1: Hollywood tax credit for liberal propaganda films and shows, but
Speaker 1: they're now also directly giving grants of taxpayer money to
Speaker 1: these newsrooms under the guise of oh, we need community
Speaker 1: news again. We've got more than enough information floating out there.
Speaker 1: We don't need state funded propaganda outfits with our taxpayer money.
Speaker 1: And even if it's not taxpayer money, the government is
Speaker 1: demanding that technology companies put money up, private money up
Speaker 1: in exchange for leniency or mercy on other government policies.
Speaker 1: A few years ago, Google was shaken down along with
Speaker 1: Meta to support local journalism through private grants. Of course,
Speaker 1: the private grants that's right, directed and approved by the
Speaker 1: Governor's office and announced through the Governor's office.
Speaker 2: Governor News some announces twenty million dollars in grant funding
Speaker 2: matched by Google to support local journalism. Eligible news resoms
Speaker 2: can get up to two andre fiighty thousand dollars each
Speaker 2: to support original reporting, pure propaganda.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is fascism, this is totalitarian regime. Stuff.
Speaker 1: When they can't keep the truth from spreading organically, they
Speaker 1: try to create the propaganda machines with your money. And
Speaker 1: so that's what's going on here. Make no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: This is not about saving jobs. This is about another
Speaker 1: shakedown of politicians, Liberal politicians in California trying to hold
Speaker 1: on to a propaganda machine that literally is imploding because you,
Speaker 1: the viewer and the reader and the subscriber, you're leaving
Speaker 1: in droves. And that's a healthy thing. That's the market
Speaker 1: saying we don't want the propaganda. But of course these
Speaker 1: democrats trying to keep the machine alive for their own
Speaker 1: political benefit, not for the good of journalism. Check out
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