Getty Images Skydance Media's $8.4 billion merger with Paramount Global — a deal that's finally set to close next week, after a protracted regulatory review and behind-the-scenes wrangling — will go down as one of the blockbuster business stories of the year. But to frame it exclusively as such, as merely a big-dollar business transaction, is to also miss the larger forces at play once the deal is done that will indirectly touch millions of Americans. Specifically, millions of news and media consumers. In r ...