With Hollywood's history of failed mergers, this is the rocky road ahead for David Ellison and Skydance

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a difficult merger integration, with the Los Angeles Times emphasizing the sheer operational sprawl Ellison must combine across studios, streaming services, TV production, animation and networks. The Verge similarly centers the Warner Bros.-Paramount deal and the company now called Skydance, but its extract is more conversational and, unlike the Times, foregrounds the question of whether the merger will destroy one company or the other.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.