There's No Business Like Show Business

摘要

All this spring along the potomac, government lawyers and economists were trying to decide whether they should let News Corp. join forces with Time Warner and other cable operators to offer satellite transmissions to homes across America. You remember News Corp.: It's the outfit whose irrepressible New York City tabloid, the Post, slammed Time Warner's vice chairman last year with a page-one headline that screamed is ted turner nuts? you decide. Of course, that was only after Turner had compared News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to "the late Fiihrer" in his readiness to use the media for his own ends. And after News Corp., upset because its new Fox News channel had been denied access to Time Warner's New York City cable systems, had hit Time Warner with a $2 billion antitrust suit. Suddenly, News Corp. wants the feds to let it merge its valuable satellite assets into PrimeStar, the consortium that includes its good buddies over at Time Warner?