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Article: Market definition, merger review, and media monopolization: congressional approval of the corporate voice through the Newspaper Preservation Act.
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- Federal Communications Law Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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I. INTRODUCTION
II. HISTORICAL AND LEGAL BACKGROUND
A. The Citizen Publishing Case
B. The Newspaper Preservation Act
C. The Federal Antitrust Laws
D. The Courts, the NPA, and the Justice Department
III. CURRENT CRITICISMS OF THE NEWSPAPER PRESERVATION
ACT
IV. THE NPA, MEDIA COMPETITION, AND MERGER REVIEW
A. Market Definition
B. Adverse Effects of Mergers
C. Market Entry
D. Efficiencies
E. Failing Firms
V. CONCLUSION
I. INTRODUCTION
Wilkes-Barre is not your average American town of 43,123 residents. (1) The northern Pennsylvania burg, located 113 miles from Philadelphia, boasts two competing ...