WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, issued the following statement in response to the WBD shareholders vote on the Paramount-Skydance/ Warner Bros. Discovery Merger:
"Thousands of actors, writers and directors, numerous unions, First Amendment scholars, antitrust enforcers, and everyday Americans oppose this merger for a reason: it'll cut jobs, jack up prices for consumers, choke free speech, and put outsized power in the hands of one mega corporation.
"This mega corporation will be run by a single family riddled with conflicts of interest that have sho...