Paramount Accuses Netflix of 'Scorched-Earth Campaign,' Rebuffs Teamsters' WBD Merger Concerns

Paramount Skydance ripped into Netflix in a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Justice, accusing the streamer of launching a "scorched-earth campaign" against them. In the note sent to Jared A. Hughes and A. Maya Khan on Friday, Makan Delrahim, Paramount's chief legal officer, slammed its once rival for Warner Bros. Discovery for attempting to "poison regulators and other stakeholders against" the now $110 billion deal. Specifically, the note claimed Netflix's "panic-level response" showed how seriously the streamer took David Ellison's company as "a scaled . . .