The DOJ has to sign off on the deal because of anti-trust implications.
Franken, as a former NBC employee (Saturday Night Live), can’t be trusted to have an objective view here. I don’t think he necessarily wants to stick it to his old bosses though.
Uberlibs like Franken have this nutty idea that the media is not liberal but conservative and as proof they site that they are owned by (horrors!) corporations! In their brains, corporation=big business=conservative=evil.
It matters not that these media corporations spew leftist pap most of the time, they are evil because they are corporations and the only thing worse than a corporation is a corporation buying up other corporations. These people reason that it should be government’s job to buy up corporations to make sure they are “fair”.
That makes sense.
That is, it makes sense why they want to be involved, not that they are. I hadn’t considered the anti-trust issue. Interesting.
Well, I wouldn’t support a merger like that if it was going to have any impact in my life. But I support government involvement even less.