Controversial $110 billion mega-merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. finally closes

What the coverage shows

All four outlets frame the story as the close of a major Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal, with CNBC and The Independent adding “here’s how we got here” style background. The New York Times is the only one to foreground a legal battle and to describe the result as a new company called Skydance, while NPR pairs the merger item with an unrelated midterms poll headline in the same post. CNBC alone emphasizes competing bids and an antitrust hurdle, and The Independent alone puts the $81 billion figure in its extract.

Written by Crossfiled from the 1 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.