from Common Dreams
A coalition of free speech organizations, progressive lawmakers, and antitrust advocates gathered outside the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC on Thursday to protest a private dinner hosted inside the building by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who is seeking regulatory approval from the Trump administration for a megamerger of his company and Warner Bros. Discovery.
The invite-only dinner was billed as an “intimate gathering in celebration of the First Amendment honoring the Trump White House”—which has waged war on press freedom—“and CBS White House correspondents.” Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, said during Thursday’s protest that the dinner “resembles the First Amendment in the same way that a book burning is a celebration of the written word.” President Donald Trump attended the dinner, which critics dubbed the “Paramount Corruption Gala.”...
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