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Advocacy groups used the hubbub of the Oscars to draw attention to their causes. Pushing against corporate media consolation, Free Press had a mobile billboard circling the Dolby Theater to protest Paramount Skydance’s likely takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Free Press warns Hollywood about the dangers of the Paramount-Warner Bros merger via a billboard truck circling the studios and the Oscars.

Recent protests organized by Free Press during the Academy Awards have caught people’s attention.

An unprecedented mega merger that puts a sizeable share of Hollywood’s total output in the hands of one man and could redraw the entertainment landscape for ever.
 

Free Press, an organization that advocates against corporate media consolidation, plans to circle the Dolby Theatre with a mobile billboard featuring Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote a post on social media that appeared to threaten the broadcast license of any media outlet that reported information concerning President Donald Trump’s war on Iran that the president did not like.

The Ellisons’ takeover casts a shadow over the Oscar celebrations. Anyone who’s followed past mergers knows that they result in fewer creative jobs and news sources but also far less diversity and creativity in the stories that Hollywood greenlights. 

Over 90 civil society organizations call on congressional Democrats to not reauthorize Section 702 of FISA without privacy reforms.

Free Press Action helped organize 90 civil-society groups to call on Democratic leaders in Congress to stand firm against White House efforts to extend government surveillance powers.

More than 90 civil society groups urged congressional Democrats to “stand firm against White House efforts to extend government surveillance powers.”