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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 9, 2026
Cable Giants Ironically Plan To Sue FCC For Illegally Killing Media Ownership Limits
I've explored how Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr has been working tirelessly to illegally destroy what's left of already shaky U.S. media consolidation limits. He's particularly interested in helping Trump-friendly local broadcasters like Sinclair, Tegna, and Nexstar merge and dominate what's left of broadcast TV "news," as a very obvious reward for their loyalty to...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 22, 2026
America Last: Trump FCC Rubber Stamps Major Saudi, Chinese Investment In Paramount Merger
There was a four year span where Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr simply couldn't stop hyperventilating about the fact that TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, was Chinese. Carr would appear on cable news pretty much every week to endlessly rant about the potential propaganda, privacy, and NatSec impact of what was (at best) fairly murky Chinese...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 9, 2026
Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger
In addition to the $111 billion Paramount/Warner Bros merger just being foundationally bad for creatives, labor, and consumers, the Ellison family-owned company's executives just keep demonstrating why they're not really the kind of folks you want dominating the lion's share of U.S. media.That's included calling deal critics "antisemitic," cozying up to foreign authoritarians, constantly threatening...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 4, 2026
Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger
It's hard to not have noticed that a key enabler of U.S. authoritarianism was our consolidated corporate media, which (with scattered exception) was more than happy to throw the entirety of journalistic integrity in the toilet for a chance to please a mad, idiot king. In large part because our press is increasingly owned by...
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