… Ted Cruz R-TX and Maria Cantwell D-WA sent the chairman a joint letter admonishing him for allowing his staff to waive the regulations to let the merger pass, instead of having the full commission of political appointees — one from the Biden administration — vote on it. “Under these circumstances,”… …
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… Ben Stiller, Joaquin Phoenix, Tiffany Haddish, Bryan Cranston, and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the over 1,000 Hollywood professionals pushing back on the $110 billion deal that they say will “further consolidate an already concentrated media landscape:” We are deeply concerned by indications of su… …
… Social media is next. …
… While Elon Musk has settled his Twitter case with the SEC, nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters says the FTC has ended a “retaliatory” investigation about whether it worked with advertisers to boycott Elon Musk’s website: …the FTC ultimately submitted to a legally binding settlement agreement wit… …
… One of the reasons I ask about acquisitions is we live in a time of media mergers, like massive earth-shattering media mergers. …
… I’ve known a lot of media executives; you’ve known a lot of media executives. You’ve just evaluated two of them. You’ve said you’re not a good media executive, and he’s a good media executive. What in 2026 separates a good media executive from a bad one? …
… You filed a lawsuit against Paramount over the Warner Bros. merger. …