How Larry Ellison and Gulf Money Just Bought Your News

The Drey Dossier

Six days before the largest media merger in American history goes to a shareholder vote, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a fourteen-page correction to the document its shareholders are being asked to vote on. The correction only exists because of one retail shareholder on Staten Island sued. Almost no one is covering it. This is the story of what the Ellisons left out, and why WBD is now admitting, in writing, that they knew about it all along.This video covers:-The fourteen-page correction WBD was forced to file on April 17 -Donna Nicosia, the one shareholder who read the proxy and sued -Why Paramount pulled ads from The Ankler over a bag of pins -Evercore's $35 to $40 million in undisclosed Ellison-world fees, and what Ampere actually is -Allen & Company, The Free Press, and a 180-day lockup that ends the same month as the vote-Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar putting up $24 billion in non-voting stock designed to skip CFIUS -David Zaslav's $887 million golden parachute, and what that vote is really asking youRead the full article thedreydossier.substack.comFollow me on TikTok / Instagram: @thedreydossierIndependent journalism only exists if people can actually see it, so if this connected some dots, share it with a Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder, a journalist who should be covering this, or anyone who needs to see what the documents actually say before Thursday. Thanks for being here.

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Six days before the largest media merger in American history goes to a shareholder vote, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a fourteen-page correction to the document its shareholders are being asked to vote on. The correction only exists because of one retail shareholder on Staten Island sued. Almost no one is covering it. This is the story of what the Ellisons left out, and why WBD is now admitting, in writing, that they knew about it all along.This video covers:-The fourteen-page correction WBD was forced to file on April 17 -Donna Nicosia, the one shareholder who read the proxy and sued -Why Paramount pulled ads from The Ankler over a bag of pins -Evercore's $35 to $40 million in undisclosed Ellison-world fees, and what Ampere actually is -Allen & Company, The Free Press, and a 180-day lockup that ends the same month as the vote-Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar putting up $24 billion in non-voting stock designed to skip CFIUS -David Zaslav's $887 million golden parachute, and what that vote is really asking youRead the full article thedreydossier.substack.comFollow me on TikTok / Instagram: @thedreydossierIndependent journalism only exists if people can actually see it, so if this connected some dots, share it with a Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder, a journalist who should be covering this, or anyone who needs to see what the documents actually say before Thursday. Thanks for being here.

2026-05-01 22 min
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