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Donald Trump stepped up his attack on the media Aug 14 with a series of tweets accusing the press of protecting Hillary Clinton, writing false stories about him, and even bias coverage of this rallies.

“I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary, I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process,” Trump wrote. “People get it!” He followed up shortly after with, “It is not ‘freedom of the press’ when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!” Trump repeatedly called the New York Times “failing” during the series of tweets, and wasn’t shy about his opinion that the media is covering for Clinton. He sent eight anti-media tweets in a 24-hour period, typically slipping in a Clinton jab in addition to the assault on press.

“No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good,” Donald Trump says. Donald Trump appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Aug 1 to complain about The New York Times treating him unfairly, but the way he chose to articulate his point is being mocked by critics and across social media. “The New York Times is so unfair. I mean they write three, four articles about me a day. No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good,” Trump said. “I mean they don’t write good.” Trump also said he calls it the “failing New York Times,” because it “won’t be in business” for long and even called out a particular reporter by name. “They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good,” Trump said.

The future of broadcast television is everywhere on the minds of television and media executives across the industry. Network television is most definitively under the microscope as a business.

Compared to movie studios, television divisions still produce significant revenue, but that's only because they have cable networks to lean on.

Netflix is speaking out about a bandwidth deal it reached with Time Warner Cable that's meant to improve streaming video quality for subscribers.

“We continue to believe consumers should get the Internet they pay for without both the sender and receiver having to pay for the same content,” Netflix spokeswoman Anne Marie Squeo said. “Just a handful of US ISPs [Internet service providers] have required these access tools, with Time Warner being the last of the four paid agreements.”

Looks like there are a couple more companies that Rupert Murdoch won't be buying.

Fresh off the news that Time Warner rejected an $80 billion takeover bid from Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, Murdoch said that he won't be purchasing either the Chicago Tribune or Los Angeles Times. Murdoch cited “cross-ownership laws from another age” via his Twitter account.

Germany's victory over Argentina trumped the 2013 Super Bowl as the single most-talked about sporting event in Facebook history. According to Facebook, 88 million people had more than 280 million interactions related to the game, which exceeded the previous record of 245 million interactions related to 2013's Super Bowl XLVII.

Twitter said that 618,725 tweets talking about the match were sent out into the digital world after Germany scored the first and only goal of the game in extra time to conquer Argentina. That broke another record set the week before when Twitter noted 580,166 tweets per minute after Germany scored seven goals to beat Brazil.

A total of 32.1 million tweets were sent out about the World Cup final during the match. Brazil's humiliating loss, however, drew more chatter. 35.6 million tweets related to the match made it the single most-talked about sports in Twitter history.

Dish Network and its chairman, Charles Ergen, have been slapped with a lawsuit over the bankrupt wireless company LightSquared. In the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Colorado, Harbinger Capital Partners accuses Ergen, Dish Network and others of engaging in “an illegal scheme of involving mail and wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud, torious interference, and abuse of process.”

Harbinger and its co-plaintiffs are seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages in the lawsuit, which claims the defendants tried to strip the investment fund of its control of bankrupt wireless company LightSquared. According to the lawsuit, the alleged racketeering action was aimed at stripping Harbinger of its right to control LightSquared and to make decisions during LightSquared's Chapter 11 proceedings, rights that Harbinger claims to have acquired “pursuant to its multi-billion dollar investment” in LightSquared.

The lawsuit accuses Dish Network and others of withholding crucial evidence during LightSquared's 2012 bankruptcy proceedings, adding that the defendants engaged in a ‘troubling pattern of noncredible testimony'” and “wrongfully and deceptively created chaos in the bankruptcy proceedings so that investment fund Harbinger would lose control of the LightSquared board to which it was contractually entitled.”

The suit accuses Dish and others of surreptitiously acquiring LightSquared debt in violation of a credit agreement. The goal, Harbinger claims, was to “dominate the Bankruptcy Proceedings and direct a bargain-basement sale of LightSquared's valuable spectrum assets to Dish.”

Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia is asking Americans to rise up and demand the right to beam broadcasters’ signals to their computers -- while paying Aereo's fee to do so.

He is asking Aereo subscribers to ask Congress to do… something. It is unclear what that might be, since the court has already shot the company down.

“Today, I'm asking you to raise your hands and make your voices heard. Tell your lawmakers how disappointed you are that the nation's highest court issued a decision that could deny you the right to use the antenna of your choice to access live over-the-air broadcast television. Tell them your stories of why having access to a cloud-based antenna is important to you and your families. Show them you care about this issue,” he wrote in an appeal to Aereo subscribers.

[Commentary] The decision by the US Supreme Court to back US broadcasters against the upstart service Aereo will send a clear message to innovators: Don't.

It makes a nice short-term win for the broadcasters who have legacy businesses and retransmission fees to protect. But it's a long-term loss for the entertainment industry, which can only survive by embracing change, encouraging innovation and being willing to blow up old business models to win in the brave new world of digital media in which we live. Broadcast television already faces a highly challenged business model.

With overall broadcast ratings declining every year and the fragmentation of audience across basic cable, premium cable and a dizzying number of streaming services, the advertising money that is its lifeblood inexorably diminishes.

As a result this industry desperately needs to understand and work with innovators, not shut them out. Change is coming anyway, Hollywood may as well drive it and maintain some sort of control over the pace and nature of that change.

With its loss before the Supreme Court, Aereo suddenly finds itself in salvage mode. The court ruled that the company -- which uses tiny antennas to beam broadcast TV signals to subscribers’ devices -- had violated broadcasters’ copyrights.

The ruling killed Aereo's business model in the midst of what had been a speedy rollout of the technology across the United States. It was a victory for traditional TV, and a setback for companies that hope to circumvent traditional TV sets by bringing TV to the masses without paying broadcasters to do so.

Now Barry Diller and other investors must find some way to recoup their money. Aereo CEO and founder Chet Kanojia raised one way Aereo could recoup some of its expenses: he said the company's technology was “immensely valuable” and he is “sure somebody will want it.”