Network Ten set to join Ellison’s mega-MAGA production company

What happens if the Little Ten becomes the Australian arm of mega-MAGA media?

Late last week, Paramount announced Skydance’s Warner Bros. With the news of its outright takeover of Discovery, Australia’s Ten Network has catapulted itself from the perennial struggle of Australian television into the local distribution arm of what would become the largest (and most politically aligned) production company in the world.

We expect significant changes in the way we obtain information and entertainment; Most of these are bad.

In the US (and by default in most of Australia’s US-based media) the takeover is analyzed through the lens of oligarchic maneuvering in the mad king’s court. Trump-friendly Ellison family Trying to create a cross-platform MAGA mass media from a mix of 20th century platforms (television, film) and…