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Comcast and NBC Universal: antitrust apocalypse?
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/10/01/comcast-and-nbc-universal-antitrust-apocalypse/
"It's virtually guaranteed that FCC [Federal Communications Commission] regulators would review this deal," Glenn Manishin, a former antitrust counsel and trial attorney at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, toldDailyFinance. "This could be a signature case for Chairman [Julius] Genachowski to demonstrate the principles he enunciated when he was confirmed." Manishin predicted any deal would also face review by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
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Don't Bail Out Newspapers—Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way
From Newsweek's "Techtonic Shifts" bog.
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Jaclyn Smith announces she is not dead on Twitter.
Well that's a BIG relief!
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Net neutrality, broadband top FCC oversight hearing agenda.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/09/net-neutrality-broadband-top-fcc-hearing-agenda.html
Telecom lawyer Glenn Manishin, a partner at Duane Morris who is following the issue closely, said he has observed “momentum from a policy standpoint from the new administration and its Congressional allies to codify and perhaps expand the FCC’s net neutrality principles. But in absence of clear legislation, there are some very significant legal issues regarding the FCC’s power to impose those regulations on otherwise unregulated Internet service providers.”
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Fox Juices "Fringe" Re-Runs with Twitter Twist.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/171111/fox_juices_fringe_reruns_with_twitter_twist.html
Now this is a serious convergence development between traditional media and the real-time Internet!
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Google: Ah, Mr Bond. I've been expecting you…
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43760/119/
Once upon a time, writers made phone calls, talked to people and wrote news. Google has stopped all that nonsense.
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