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Article: And justice for all broadcast: Hollings is still angry over the decision to move all media mergers to DoJ purview. (Washington).(Fritz Hollings, Department of Justice)(Brief Article)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- March 18, 2002
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Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) and public-interest groups are complaining loudly about the decision by Justice and the FTC that one head is better than two when it comes to media mergers (they agreed to grant authority over all such mergers to DoJ's Antitrust Division rather than divide them up ad hoc). But some Washington observers say the change doesn't change much.
"What they are doing now is not so different than what they were doing," says attorney Donald Russell. He ought to know. He was head of the Antitrust Division's Telecommunications Task Force in the Clinton administration.
Media Access Project's Andrew Schwartzman agrees, in part. DoJ is a ...