Antitrust lawsuit accuses the Murdoch-owned outlet of stifling competition in the rightwing TV news market

Newsmax, the conservative cable network run by Christopher Ruddy, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet of stifling competition in the rightwing television news market.

The antitrust lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in the US district court for the southern district of Florida, names both Fox News Network and its parent company, Fox Corp. It claims the broadcaster carried out “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news”.

The complaint goes on: “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. Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax.”

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago

Fox News will just claim that they’re entertainment, so they cannot possibly be competing with a news channel.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    LET. THEM. FIGHT.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Newsmax is absolute garbage but I sort of want to see them win this one.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Oh no how unfortunate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They can both go FATWO

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, fight amongst yourselves!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need the Fairness Doctrine back.

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