Media Consolidation Teach-In Resources List
By IDA Staff
Media Consolidation Teach-In Recording
Free Press: Teach-in Presentation Slides
Community Collected Teach-In Chat resources
Started by filmmaker Chithra Jeyaram
More about the Netflix Deal
- MoveOn Slams Netflix
- The Ankler, “WB-NETFLIX Breakdown: Layoffs, Movies, TV, More”
- Craig Aaron, “Stop the Merger Madness” (Pressing Issues, Dec. 5)
- “Broken Promises: Media Mega-Mergers and the Case for Antitrust Reform” (Writers Guild of America West, December 2021)
Consolidation is not Inevitable
- NPR, The Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster was stopped in 2022
- Forbes, Why The Kroger-Albertsons Merger Was Blocked
- NPR, The Warner Bros. Curse, 2025
(Winter) Reading for Additional Context
- Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
- Lina Khan: Amazon Anti-trust Paradox
- Tim Wu, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
- Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
- Andrew DeWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture
- Matt Stoller’s Substack
- Jennifer Pozner, It’s Not You, It’s Media (an upcoming graphic novel)
- Federal Trade Commission, New Merger Guidelines (Issued Dec 2023)
How Independent Media Workers are Impacted
- Stern School of Business, Financial Syndicate doesn’t exist in streaming
- Variety, Theater Owners Worry Netflix Buying Warner Bros. Will Cripple Their Business: ‘Hopefully the Deal Gets Killed’
How to Make an Impact Through Reps
- Contact Your Rep Guide
- Every state's Attorney General can challenge mergers that affect constituents
- Tisch James (NY)
- Phil Weiser (Colorado)
- Jonathan Scrametti (Tennessee)
- Kim Paxton (Texas)
- Rob Bonta (California)
- Letter Example from American Economic Liberties Project
- Comment of the Future Film Coalition has some helpful language and citations
Get Updates and Stay Connected
- Take the Media Consolidation Engagement Survey
- Subscribe to the Future Film Coalition substack for updates
- Volunteer for the FFC's Media Consolidation Working Group
- Follow the IDA Advocacy Blog for news: documentary.org/advocacy
- Reach out to IDA about how to get involved at advocacy@documentary.org
- Sign up for Free Press Activations
- Join the Committee for the First Amendment