It only took a weekend. Paramount is jumping into the fray with a hostile takeover bid, challenging Netflix's deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount's offer is valued at over $108 billion.
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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.
