Corporate media mergers are detrimental because they limit consumer choice and restrict the information the public can access.

“it not only affects the business, but it affects the consumer and what it is that we have access to, right?”

Media consolidation poses an existential threat to freedom of speech and democracy by allowing a small number of powerful entities to control the information landscape.

“When a handful of billionaires and giant corporations control what Americans watch, hear, read, and ultimately discuss. When they exert undue influence on where those discussions are steered, that is when freedom of speech becomes something closer to a branding exercise than a constitutional guarant”