What I found so amusing covering the @wbd drama-- blow by blow, almost minute by minute --is how most of the media missed the regulatory angle, and bought the nonsense coming from @netflix that it had the antitrust division ready to approve. It's as if they were rooting for Netflix, regurgitating the absurd comments of a certain stock analyst who began demanding that the Ellisons and $PSKY drop out when he had no idea what was really going down. You think of reporters as renegades; they're not. Most want to preserve the status quo, particularly if that status quo channels their progressive vision of the world, which @netflix certainly does, and PSKY certainly doesn't. If you don't believe me, just take a look at what Netflix serves up as documentaries, it airing of an absurd program titled "Cuties" and who it was lauded by the progressive press for this "French coming-of-age drama film" featuring pre-teen girls in provocative settings. Another blind spot of the MSM in its coverage: It had ZERO clue about what animates GOP's activist conservative and MAGA wings, and how most of the GOP despises Netflix. If they had, I wouldn't have been the only reporter on this story who saw the intense opposition from the right to Netflix doing anything that makes it a possible monopoly in an antitrust sense but also in controlling the cultural debate. The company is widely regarded in GOP circles as a depository of reliably progressive programming, so why then, in God's name, would a GOP White House allow it to literally control vast swaths of the streaming biz by layering its No. 1 service with HBO Max at No. 3?