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President Trump Says His Regulatory Rollback Already Is the ‘Most Far-Reaching’ (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 06:38What Disney Is Getting From Fox (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 06:36The Disney-Fox Deal Has Friends in High Places (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 16:17‘Are You Normal?’ Putin Asks U.S. Congress in Annual News Gathering (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 13:25Op-Ed: Chinese ownership is raising questions about the editorial independence of a major U.S. magazine (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 13:16What if You Couldn’t Access This Page?
[Commentary] To taste a future without network neutrality, try browsing the web in Beijing. China’s internet, provided through telecom giants aligned with the Communist Party, is a digital dystopia, filtered by the vast censorship apparatus known as China’s Great Firewall. Some sites load with soul-withering slowness, or not at all. Others appear instantly. Content vanishes without warning or explanation. The culprit is rarely knowable. A faulty Wi-Fi router? A neighborhood power failure? Commercial sabotage? A clampdown on political dissent?
A.G. Sulzberger, 37, Is Named Next Publisher of The New York Times, Succeeding His Father (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 11:44Rupert Murdoch Is Having His King Lear Moment (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 10:58
Disney Makes Deal for 21st Century Fox, Reshaping Entertainment Landscape
The Walt Disney Company has reached a deal to buy most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, the conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $52.4 billion. To complete the integration, a legacy-defining task, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, agreed to renew his contract for a fourth time, delaying retirement from July 2019 to the end of 2021.