It means nothing for the availability of entertainment, but it does have one meaningful effect. Regarding your editorial “Paramount and Backward Antitrust” (July 22): For the last several decades, the primary goal of anti-trust seems to have become protecting antitrust, not consumers. The extremely narrow focus on theatrical releases in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case is the latest example.

It has never been cheaper or easier to distribute or consume an unending assortment of entertainment content, and that will continue to be the case regardless of whether the merger goes through. But without the continued threat of antitrust actions, the post-government market value of current federal, antitrust employees would be much lower.