So many of Democrats’ political problems are downstream from not taking media consolidation seriously, from megamergers like this on down to advertising and local journalism. We need comprehensive media reform in the US.
It turns out that if you gut CBS news, gut 60 Minutes, promise to gut CNN, cancel Colbert, get $29B in Saudi, Qatari & UAE money, and hold a weird lavish banquet for the President and acting AG in a federal building… you can get your illegal merger approved by the DOJ.