The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, if it goes through, would not only have a major impact on the future of the media business, but on our collective past.
Skydance Media, through its acquisition of Paramount, already controls the CBS News archive. If Paramount succeeds in taking over WBD, it will also assume control of the CNN archive, one of the most important in the news and documentary space. That’s cause for alarm among some who work constantly with the historical resources of CNN and CBS News.
“It’s heartbreaking,” says Rochelle Widdowson, archival producer on the documentary Ghost in the
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