分析师表示,如果它是优先事项,他们将对整个业务的财务贡献相对较小,他们会感到惊讶。埃里森(Ellison)还表示,他希望在派拉蒙(Paramount)赚取200亿美元的削减。雷蒙德·詹姆斯(Raymond James)董事总经理里克·普伦蒂斯(Ric Prentiss)说:“我不认为这是'我想变得更大的新闻'的东西。” “我认为这是'我想创建内容'的东西。我认为新闻不是其中的重要组成部分。”纽约大学斯特恩商学院娱乐,媒体和技术计划的主任保罗·哈德(Paul Hardart)表示,成长的努力表明,埃利森(Ellisons)希望抓住这一刻。 “谁知道他们会有多长时间?”他说。毕竟,当另一个巨大的亿万富翁和可能的媒体大亨埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)与特朗普政府息息相关时,这种关系最终陷入了火焰。当美国总统推动对左翼团体的镇压并公开以政治敌人为目标时,批评家问他要去美国詹姆斯·科米(James Comey)说他是无辜的,而且指控是出于政治动机,因为他们遵循特朗普对检察官采取行动的压力。反对科米的刑事案件履行了总统寻求报应的愿望,并进一步引起了人们对滥用权力的担忧。在特朗普拒绝在预算谈判中寻求医疗资金的民主党会议之后,警告发出。深夜漫画的节目将在迪斯尼说与他进行“周到的对话”之后,将重返播出。科技亿万富翁拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)和他的儿子好莱坞制片人戴维(David)长期以来一直走上世界精英大厅。但是,今年,他们的权力已经迈出了新的维度,因为他们取得了涉及Tiktok到CNN名称的交易,这将使他们能够控制地球上一些最大的媒体公司。如果默多克的名字已经在世界各地都知道,那么不久之后,埃利森(Ellisons)加入了他们。拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的关系为家庭的攀登铺平了道路,后者祝福了交易,称赞今年早些时候埃里森长老是“一个了不起的人和令人惊叹的商人”。他说:“这远远超出了技术的范围。”在某些方面,对于Ellison来说,这是一条不太可能的道路。现年81岁的拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)的名字掌握了数据库和云计算的奥术领域,1977年共同创立了软件和数据库公司Oracle。技术界的巨人,他的财富部分取决于他在Oracle中的大约40%的利益,在过去的12个月中,他在过去的12个月中增加了一倍,大约是370BN的企业,因为该公司的构建均为一项努力,因为该公司的构建是一项重要的一员。本月,他甚至是世界上最富有的人,从埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)占据了第一名。迄今为止,埃里森(Ellison)的课外活动倾向于偏向游艇,网球,抗衰老研究并在夏威夷购买一个岛屿。但是最近引起了最大关注的是他与总统的关系。他被称为共和党人的巨型多诺(Megadonor),他于2020年为特朗普(Trump)主持了一项筹款活动,尽管据报道他没有参加该活动,联邦记录显示对总统没有公开贡献。 Oracle在特朗普的第一学期中加入了Tiktok,充当该应用程序在美国的用户数据的主机。根据白宫的一项协议,现在有望成为具有更大作用的投资者,负责重新培训我们所看到的算法。 (特朗普说,默多克人是一个长期以来的媒体王朝,也可能涉及该交易)。这些与政府的联系也被证明对他的42岁儿子戴维(David)做出了有用,因为他采取了举动成为主要的媒体力量球员。他第一次涉足好莱坞,这是一部2006年关于第一次世界大战飞行员的电影,他资助并共同出演了他,这是一场失败。特朗普还表示,“新主人”向他保证了价值数十亿美元的免费广告或编程。大卫·埃里森(David Ellison)表示,跳伞运动没有参与派拉蒙定居点,他的公司遵守反贿赂法。但是他上个月对记者说:“我们今天不会政治化任何事情。”他还已经在CBS进行了一些更改,其中一些是FCC签署交易时宣布的条件。其中包括任命保守的监管机构来审查偏见的投诉。该公司还表示,哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)的政治表演面对国家,只会进行现场直播或未经编辑的访谈,这是一段悠久的新闻实践。纽约大学媒体教授,媒体所有权如何重要的作者罗德尼·本森(Rodney Benson)说:“这些行动符合白宫明确表示想要的,所以我认为这确实令人担忧。”合并后,戴维·埃里森(David Ellison)对记者进行了交谈,他的政治奉献表演表明去年对民主党人的贡献做出了记录,他说他想避免与左派或右边的人有联系。据《洛杉矶时报》报道,他说:“我们是一家娱乐公司,我真的相信,如果您呼吸,您是我们的听众。” “我们希望与所有人交谈。”其他高管们推迟了公司所有者将寻求摇摆新闻报道的概念,而Skydance的合作伙伴之一Gerry Cardinale是与Paramount交易中的另一个主要投资者,称这一想法为“不好的业务”。他说:“整个投资论文的内核是独立性和客观性。如果您不能掌握它,那就不要买。” “我们不可能试图影响它。”在华尔街上,派拉蒙与华纳兄弟发现的潜在合作有很多粉丝,因为投资者看到了一个与竞争对手迪斯尼和Netflix竞争的分销能力和图书馆创建工作室的机会。分析师指出,大卫·埃里森(David Ellison)在电影制作方面的背景和担任首席执行官的角色使他与其他一些技术巨人(例如杰夫·贝索斯(Jeff Bezos))区分开来,后者已经购买了媒体出版物作为一种爱好。但是,尽管埃里森(Ellison)对电影表示热爱 - 直到2022年,他就坚持了母亲的VHS录像带的收藏 - 他对新闻业的看法丝毫没有说。但是,自从2010年成立自己的工作室Skydance以来,他就获得了父亲的数十亿美元的名字,制作了热门电影,例如True Grit,Mission Impossiment and Warp War Z. 2011年,他的姐姐Megan Ellison在2011年创立了自己的制作工作室Annapurna Pictures,该影片还继续制作电影《 American Hustle American Hustle》,她,她和Sero Dark Thirty。同时,大卫·埃里森(David Ellison)将Skydance推向了电视,游戏和体育运动。但是他上个月由父亲支持的派拉蒙(Paramount)的接管标志着新领域的重大飞跃。现在,他是一项庞大的行动的老板,拥有18,000多名员工和新的挑战,包括监督美国最大的新闻媒体之一CBS。此次收购要求联邦通信委员会(FCC)的祝福,该委员会在美国进行广播,并由特朗普忠诚主义者布伦丹·卡尔(Brendan Carr)领导。据说埃利森(Ellisons)还正在为华纳兄弟(Warner Brothers Discovery)准备竞标,这是鲁尼·敦(Looney Tunes),哈利·波特(Harry Potter)和超人(Harry Potter)和超人的所在地,以及HBO和CNN,这将创建美国最大的媒体巨头之一。这项交易将需要政府的签字,并以竞争监管机构的清算形式。拉里·埃里森(Larry Ellison)和大卫·埃里森(David Ellison)没有回应通过其公司提出的置评请求。但是,在媒体上更广泛的白宫压力下,埃利森(Ellisons)与特朗普(Trump)的不断增长的力量在左边引起了警报,批评者担心总统影响其政府新闻报道的能力。媒体观察集团最近警告说:“埃里森二人组接管了CBS和CNN,并控制像Tiktok这样的主要社交媒体网络对民主来说是危险的。鉴于他们与特朗普政权的亲密关系,这似乎是重点。”参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦(Elizabeth Warren)呼吁将任何派拉蒙 - 战士兄弟兄弟(Commarount-Warner Brothers)捆绑在一起,作为“危险的力量”。其他团体批评Tiktok协议是与总统盟友的赠品。上个月众议院民主党人还表示,他们正在进行一项调查,以查看派拉蒙 - 肯德斯是否已对特朗普提出任何承诺,以确保获得批准,这可能违反了反贿赂法。他们指出,在交易批准的几周前,派拉蒙同意支付1600万美元与特朗普解决诉讼,特朗普指责CBS欺骗性地编辑卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)采访以帮助民主党人。
Move over, Murdochs - a new family dynasty is shaking up US media
Tech billionaire Larry Ellison and his son, Hollywood producer David, have long walked the halls of the world's elite. But this year, their power has taken on a new dimension, as they pursue deals involving names from TikTok to CNN that would give them control over some of the biggest media companies on the planet. If the Murdoch name is already known the world over, it may not be long before the Ellisons join them. Paving the way for the family's ascent is Larry Ellison's relationship with US President Donald Trump, who has blessed the dealings, praising the elder Ellison earlier this year as "an amazing man and amazing business person". "It's well beyond technology," he said, describing him as "sort of CEO of everything". In some ways, it's an unlikely path for the Ellisons. Larry Ellison, 81, made his name mastering the arcane realm of databases and cloud computing, co-founding the software and database company Oracle in 1977. A giant of the tech world, his fortune, which rests in part on his roughly 40% stake in Oracle, has doubled over the last 12 months, to about $370bn, as the firm takes on a key role building up infrastructure for artificial intelligence. For a moment this month, he even ranked as the world's richest person, taking the top spot from Elon Musk. Ellison's extracurricular activity to date has tended to skew toward yachting, tennis, anti-ageing research and buying an island in Hawaii. But it's his relationship with the president that has drawn the most attention recently. Known as a Republican megadonor, he hosted a fundraiser for Trump in 2020, though he reportedly did not attend the event and federal records show no public contributions to the president. Oracle became involved with TikTok during Trump's first term, acting as a host for the app's user data in the US. Under a deal brokered by the White House, it is now poised to become an investor with an even greater role, in charge of retraining the algorithm that serves up what we see. (Trump has said the Murdochs, a long established media dynasty, could be involved in the deal as well). Those ties with the administration have also proved useful for his 42-year-old son, David, as he makes moves to become a major media power player. His first foray into Hollywood, a 2006 movie about World War I pilots that he financed and co-starred in, was a flop. But since founding his own studio, Skydance, in 2010, he has earned a name beyond his dad's billions, producing hit movies such as True Grit, Mission Impossible and World War Z. In 2011, his sister, Megan Ellison, also founded her own production studio Annapurna Pictures, which went on to produce films American Hustle, Her, and Zero Dark Thirty. Meanwhile, David Ellison pushed Skydance into television, gaming and sports. But his takeover last month of Paramount, which was backed by his father, marked a significant leap into new territory. Now he's the boss of a sprawling operation with more than 18,000 employees and new challenges, including overseeing one of America's biggest news outlets, CBS. The acquisition required a blessing from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates broadcasting in the US and is led by Trump loyalist Brendan Carr. The Ellisons are also said to be preparing a bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, home to Looney Tunes, Harry Potter and Superman, as well as HBO and CNN, a combination that would create one of the biggest media giants in the US. That deal would require sign-off from the government, in the form of clearance from competition regulators. Larry Ellison and David Ellison did not respond to requests for comment, made via their companies. But against the backdrop of wider White House pressure on the media, the Ellisons' growing power and ties to Trump have stoked alarm on the left, where critics fear the president's ability to influence news coverage of his administration. "The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy. And given their closeness to the Trump regime, that seems to be the point," the media watch group FAIR warned recently. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for any Paramount-Warner Brothers tie-up to be blocked, as a "dangerous concentration of power". Other groups have criticised the TikTok deal as a giveaway to allies of the president. House Democrats last month also said they were launching an investigation to see if Paramount-Skydance had made any commitments to Trump to secure approval, a potential violation of anti-bribery laws. They noted that just weeks before the deal was approved, Paramount agreed to pay $16m to settle a lawsuit with Trump, who had accused CBS of deceptively editing a Kamala Harris interview to help Democrats. Trump has also said "the new owners" had promised him billions worth of free advertising or programming. David Ellison has said Skydance was not involved in the Paramount settlement and his firm is in compliance with anti-bribery laws. But he has ducked questions about a side deal, telling reporters last month: "We're not going to politicise anything today." He has also already made some changes at CBS, some of which were conditions announced by the FCC when it signed off on the deal. Those have included appointing a conservative watchdog to review complaints of bias. The company has also said CBS's political show, Face the Nation, will only air live or unedited interviews, a break with long-established journalistic practice. "These actions are in line with what the White House has made clear that they want so I think this is really concerning," said Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University and lead author of the book How Media Ownership Matters. Speaking to reporters after the merger, David Ellison, whose track record of political giving shows contributions to Democrats last year, said he wanted to avoid being associated with either the left or the right. "We're an entertainment company first, and I genuinely believe if you're breathing, you're our audience," he said, according to the LA Times. "We want to be in the business of speaking to everybody." Other executives pushed back on the notion the firm's owners would seek to sway news coverage, with Gerry Cardinale, one of Skydance's partners and the other major investor in the deal with Paramount, calling the idea "bad business". "The kernel of the entire investment thesis is independence and objectivity. If you can't get your head around that, don't buy it," he said, according to Variety. "There's no way we're going to try to influence it." On Wall Street, Paramount's potential tie-up with Warner Brothers Discovery has plenty of fans, as investors see an opportunity to create a studio with the distribution power and library to rival Disney and Netflix. Analysts noted that David Ellison's background in movie-making and role as chief executive sets him apart from some other tech titans, like Jeff Bezos, who have purchased media publications as a kind of hobby. But while Ellison has expressed love for the movies - holding on to his mother's collection of VHS tapes as recently as 2022 - he has said little about the news industry. Analysts said they would be surprised if it were a priority, given its relatively small financial contribution to the overall business. Ellison has also said he is looking to make $2bn in cuts at Paramount. "I don't view this as something that says 'I want to get bigger into news'," said Ric Prentiss, managing director at Raymond James. "I think this is something that says 'I want to create content'. I don't think news is a strong part of it." Paul Hardart, director of the entertainment, media and technology programme at New York University's Stern School of Business, said the push to grow suggested the Ellisons were looking to seize the moment. "Who knows how long they will have the administration's ear?" he said. After all, when Elon Musk, another mega billionaire and would-be media mogul, tied himself to the Trump administration, that relationship ended up going up in flames. As the US president pushes a crackdown on left-wing groups and openly targets political foes, critics ask where he's taking America James Comey says he is innocent and the charges are politically motivated, as they follow Trump pressure on prosecutors to act. The criminal case against Comey fulfils the president's desire to seek retribution and further raises concerns about abuse of power. The warning came after Trump refused a meeting with Democrats seeking healthcare funding in budget negotiations. The late-night comic's show will return to air after Disney said it had "thoughtful conversations" with him.
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