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  "textContent": "Paramount defended its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is considering an antitrust challenge to the transaction. In a letter to Bonta last week, Paramount’s chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, said that the combined companies would have the incentive to boost theatrical distribution, not reduce it. Delrahim wrote, […]",
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