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The WGA East, decrying the "negative impact" the Big Tech giants are having on ad revenue for news organizations, has submitted written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Competition, Antitrust and Consumer Rights for its hearings on “Breaking the News – Journalism, Competition, and the…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) plan to introduce legislation that would limit the ability of large tech platforms like Google, Apple and Amazon to give preference to their own products or engage in conduct that disadvantages rivals. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act would be a…

The closure of Pacific Theatres and ArcLight may have sounded alarm bells over the dire state of exhibition due to the coronavirus pandemic, but theater owners are especially frustrated, anxious and unnerved that a signature government lifeline so far has struggled to get up and running. The Shuttered Venues Operators…

The latest news out of the latest congressional hearing on tech platforms’ content moderation practices was from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, who said that he’s open to a rethink of Section 230. That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way…

EXCLUSIVE: When it comes down to who Joe Biden selects as his running mate against Donald Trump and Mike Pence, Hollywood power players are split between their hearts and their heads. With the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee promising back in March that he would choose a woman for the job, senators Elizabet…

Amy Klobuchar is ending her presidential bid and will endorse Joe Biden at a campaign event in Dallas. Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, faced a tough night on Super Tuesday, including the possibility of losing her home state’s primary to Bernie Sanders. She was among a group of moderates who sought the…

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, battling to emerge as the choice among moderates in the Democratic primary, are heading to Los Angeles next week to tap Hollywood and Los Angeles donors for badly needed campaign cash in advance of the Nevada and South Carolina contests followed by the juggernaut of Super…

The New York Times broke with convention and endorsed two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination — Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. The editorial board’s choice was revealed on The Weekly, the FX and Hulu series, in a first for the publication. As noted in the episode, for 160 years the endorsement…

Democratic presidential candidates soon will start descending on Los Angeles for Thursday’s  presidential debate — if a labor dispute is resolved. Unite Here Local 11, which represents cooks, dishwashers, cashiers and other workers, said that contract negotiations will resume Tuesday with Sodexo, which contracts with…

FNC outscored CNN's town-hall palooza Monday night. MSNBC did same in total viewers only, but fell short of CNN in the news demo. From 7 PM to midnight, FNC clocked 2.3M viewers and 380K in the 25-54 age bracket, besting MSNBC (1.8M, 2.85K) in both metrics and handily trumping CNN (1.2, 371K) in overall audience, with…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be the next Democratic White House hopeful in the Fox News Channel town hall hot seat, the news outlet announced two days after Sen. Bernie Sanders made FNC ratings history doing same. The Minnesota lawmaker will take questions from the audience and returning moderators Bret Baier and Martha Mac…

CNN's Don Lemon-hosted town hall with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar came in third on Presidents Day to MSNBC and Fox News Channel, both in total viewers and in the news demo. CNN's 10-11:15 PM sit-down with the Dem presidential candidate clocked 1.139M viewers. Only 294K of them fell into the 25-54 demo that is the…