Paramount can meet with California attorney general when it "stops playing games"

That is literally what he said. “As soon as Paramount stops playing games and engages sincerely, my office is happy to meet again,” Bonta said in a statement to The New York Times overnight. A couple of weeks ago, Bonta and several other state AGs filed an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount’s acquisition of WBD. Paramount threatened to leave California if settlement talks didn’t take place, which Bonta did agree to, meeting with representatives for the company last week. But the company, apparently, blew the goodwill nearly immediately. “Not only did Paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith,” says Bonta elsewhere in the Times statement. Paramount hasn’t publicly responded as of this writing, but we assume it’ll say something about how the merging of two companies into one is good for both consumers and workers, actually.