The US Justice Dept is investigating five TV networks for temporarily halting White House pool coverage in solidarity with CNN, citing potential Sherman Act violations. #Antitrust #News

The US Justice Dept is investigating five TV networks for temporarily halting White House pool coverage in solidarity with CNN, citing potential Sherman Act violations. #Antitrust #News
Probe Into TV Networks Rests On Thin Legal Grounds #TVNews #MediaEthics #TrumpAdministration #Antitrust #PressFreedom
Egg producers accused of coordinating to drive up prices are settling for a fine worth about 0.23% of one year's profits.
"It's really more of like a cost of doing business." — Sarah Carden, Farm Action
#EggPrices #Antitrust #Alabama
🚨 The U.S. Department of Justice opened an antitrust investigation into five TV networks over their temporary suspension of shared coverage of President Trump. The probe examines if the coordinated boycott violated federal competition laws. #JusticeDepartment #Antitrust #MediaCoverage
Skydance buys WBD for $111B — streaming giants unite under one roof. #MediaMerger #Streaming #Paramount #Skydance #Antitrust #ContentWars https://thedailytechfeed.com/warner-bros-discovery-acquired-by-paramount-a-deep-dive-into-the-111b-deal/
Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations #JusticeDepartment #Antitrust #Trump #PressFreedom #MediaEthics
Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations #JusticeDepartment #Antitrust #Trump #PressFreedom #MediaEthics
US: DOJ opens an antitrust probe of 5 TV networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox News) over their White House pool boycott.
The Justice Department is investigating five major TV networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News) for potentially violating antitrust laws after they temporarily suspended pool coverage of President Trump. #antitrust #News
The DOJ is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox for coordinating a White House press pool boycott—potentially a #DOJ antitrust violation. The networks halted shared coverage to protest the admin's ban on some outlets. Does that cross into #Press #Freedom or #Antitrust law?
Here is that (IM¬HO awesome) telco preprint – if @mhampel.bsky.social @vheddesheimer.bsky.social & I can just get our polarisation thing resubmitted this is next on my list econpapers.repec.org/paper/osfsoc... #antitrust #competitionLaw #digitalSovereignty #scaling #digitalGovernance 2/3
Democrats Must Expose the Epstein Cartel's #Antitrust Corruption
"The White House press pool has now become a proxy for a fight over press freedom." That, but maybe also a warning shot about collective action by #gafam, e.g. wrt the ICC? #antitrust #autocracy
📰 US opens antitrust probe into TV networks halting Trump coverage
Department of Justice says it's investigating whether the White House press pool's decision violated antitrust laws.
Source: Al Jazeera | Read story
💬 Share your thoughts below 👇
The #DOJ is investigating whether the major #television #networks — #ABC, #CBS, #CNN, #NBC & #FoxNews — violated federal #antitrust #law [🤣] when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of #Trump….
Officials from the DOJ contacted #TVnetworks Friday & demanded communications & […]
I mean… ri-fucking-diculous
#Trump #DOJ Is Investigating #TVNetworks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major #TV #networks were notified Friday that the Dept of “Justice” was looking into whether they violated #antitrust #law when they suspended pool coverage of Trump.
"I’ll tell you why Hollywood is skeptical. Among other changes, Ellison fired Warner heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. These people are sharks, but they are very good at making money in the film business. In 2025, Warner had a banner year, " -- #MattStoller
The issue is that unregulated capitalism is bad. John Maynard Keynes and Franklin D. Roosevelt knew this very well. Government welfare and taxing billionaires is very important to save capitalism from itself.
#keynesianeconomics
#fuckneoliberalism
#antitrust
#taxbillionaires