The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media

The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) published a report detailing how Disney, Amazon, and Netflix have amassed power through anticompetitive practices and abusing their dominance to further disadvantage competitors, raise prices for consumers, and push down wages for the creative workforce. Pay and working conditions for writers have become so dire, and media conglomerates so unresponsive, that 11,500 writers went on strike in May 2023. Without intervention from antitrust agencies and lawmakers, consolidation will continue to snowball, leaving the future of media in peril. The WGAW proposes policy recommendations to protect creativity and diversity of choice in content.