The Hollywood Merger Won’t Kill Entertainment Jobs. Blocking It Might | SpinGraph: Regulatory blame shift
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The Hollywood Merger Won’t Kill Entertainment Jobs. Blocking It Might
Hollywood, mergers, entertainment jobs, industry contraction
Claims Hollywood’s contraction is driven by forces other than mergers Suggests merger opposition may harm employment rather than protect it Implies regulatory or policy intervention against consolidation is misguided
Emphasizes the risk of blocking mergers while minimizing or omitting evidence of how mergers themselves affect employment; avoids naming or substantiating the 'something besides' that is allegedly to blame.
Pro-consolidation policy advocacy disguised as labor protection
Blocking Hollywood mergers may harm entertainment jobs, according to National Review.
Specific labor data pre- and post-merger; Role of streaming platform economics and algorithmic content allocation; Union contract timelines and bargaining power erosion
Combines loaded language ('clearly to blame', 'might') with strategic omission of alternatives and evidence, making the anti-merger position appear reckless by default. The main tension is between a strong, actionable policy claim and zero empirical grounding — the framing gains force precisely because it avoids specifying what's really at fault.
Something besides industry consolidation is clearly to blame for Hollywood’s current contraction.