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Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers
The Meredith Corporation — the owner of Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens and AllRecipes — agreed to purchase Time Inc. (the publisher of once-prestigious magazine titles including Time, Sports Illustrated and People) in an all-cash transaction valued at nearly $3 billion. The deal was made possible, in part, by an infusion of $650 million from the private equity arm of Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers known for using their wealth and political connections to advance conservative causes.
Twitter Says Blocking a New York Times Account Was ‘an Error’ (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 06:11Reade Brower, The Media Mogul of Maine (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 06:11Editorial: Cops, Cellphones and Privacy at the Supreme Court (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 06:10Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality
[Commentary] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai faces a serious legal problem. Because he is killing net neutrality outright, not merely weakening it, he will have to explain to a court not just the shift from 2015 but also his reasoning for destroying the basic bans on blocking and throttling, which have been in effect since 2005 and have been relied on extensively by the entire internet ecosystem. This will be a difficult task. What has changed since 2004 that now makes the blocking or throttling of competitors not a problem?
Washington Has Delivered a Tangled Message on AT&T’s Power
In a matter of hours this week, the Trump administration twice weighed in on one of the central issues shaping business and society today — just how much market power big companies should be allowed to amass. Yet in back-to-back developments, two federal agencies arrived at starkly different conclusions, and one company, AT&T, found itself on opposite sides of the debate.