Story Arc Gerry Cardinale and Greg Peters Getty/Netflix The temperature is rising in the Warner Bros Discovery chase, with key figures at Netflix and Paramount ridiculing the other companies’ merger proposals. Netflix, running what might be termed Operation Reassure Wall Street, has recently made Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters available to consumer media outlets with sizable finance and entertainment audiences. The pair also spent much of last Tuesday’s fourth-quarter earnings interview stumping for their company’s pending $82.7 billion offer to acquire WBD‘s studios-and-streaming division.