Newsmax sues Fox News (monopoly case)

[Jimmy Higgins]

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The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Fox News Network and its parent company, Fox Corp, accused Fox of engaging in “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news.”

“Fox’s control over this must-have news channel gives it significant market power and leverage to impose onerous demands on distributors of its content,” Newsmax alleges in the lawsuit. “Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax.”

Yeah... good luck with that. Newsmax wants to be paid, but people watch Fox News, not Newsmax.

But let's get a little bit more silly.

“This lawsuit is about restoring fairness to the market and ensuring that Americans have real choice in the news they watch,” Ruddy said. “If we prevail, Fox’s damages could be tripled under federal law – an outcome that would send a powerful message to any company that thinks it can monopolize public discourse.”

Fairness in the market, really? Far right conservative propaganda channel wants the courts to coerce conservative news channel to make it easier for them to make money.

 

[Patooka]

Because Jimmy started this thread I thought this was satire. Now I am uncertain what is reality anymore.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

This seems like an Onion item, however the link goes to an actual document, not an Onion site. This is self-parody by Newsmax, although it would be funny if they won the case, which seems extremely unlikely.