Kim Ives

And, you know, I do think it is a form of authoritarian media capture where, you know, I mentioned the Viktor Orban regime of Hungary earlier, where, you know, it's an insight for many of these types of would-be autocrats to that they don't necessarily have to police the media directly.

They don't have to march in and take over newsrooms at gunpoint, but they often can rely on friendly media oligarchs to do the policing for them.

And I think oftentimes it's those subtle, less visible forms of media control where, as we've been hearing in recent weeks with these ongoing mergers, especially Paramount and Warner Brothers, I'm thinking of, where Trump is basically accommodating and helping to coordinate these huge media conglomerate mergers where he's going to have friends take over the media.

And we already saw what happened to CBS.