{"id":286,"date":"2012-08-21T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=286"},"modified":"2012-08-21T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T14:41:21","slug":"when-competition-is-cooked-consumers-are-toast-wired-business-wired-com-15-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/08\/21\/when-competition-is-cooked-consumers-are-toast-wired-business-wired-com-15-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"When Competition Is Cooked, Consumers Are Toast | Wired Business | Wired.com, 15 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom line: The companies involved in the transaction can credibly claim that the deal itself is not going to change the facts on the ground for most Americans. Without \u201cmerger-specific harms,\u201d and with an impressive display of bureaucratic sleight-of-hand \u2013 FCC got the spectrum part of the deal but DOJ got the joint marketing arrangements, and the two agencies have different statutory authority and DNA, leading to lots of finger-pointing and careful behavior \u2013 the companies will avoid being interfered with unduly by the feds.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2012\/08\/when-competition-is-cooked-consumers-are-toast\/\">When Competition Is Cooked, Consumers Are Toast | Wired Business | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom line: The companies involved in the transaction can credibly claim that the deal itself is not going to change the facts on the ground for most Americans. Without \u201cmerger-specific harms,\u201d and with an impressive display of bureaucratic sleight-of-hand \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/08\/21\/when-competition-is-cooked-consumers-are-toast-wired-business-wired-com-15-august-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}