Comcast-NBC Deal Sparks Fear
From this morning's Earlybird:
• Politico reports on some media consumer advocacy groups' fears over Comcast's attempt to buy NBC Universal from General Electric: "If the $30 billion sale goes through, it will mark the emergence of Comcast as perhaps the country's biggest media empire, while landing it squarely in the center of a raging debate over media consolidation and bias."
• "The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a police department violated the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received on a government pager," the New York Times reports. "The case opens 'a new frontier in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,' according to a three-judge panel of an appeals court that ruled in favor of the employee, a police sergeant on the Ontario, Calif., SWAT team."
• "Google Inc. is in discussions with Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA to sell its upcoming phone at a discounted price for the carrier's customers, according to people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal reports. "Google is talking to other wireless carriers about similar arrangements, these people said. A Google spokeswoman couldn't immediately be reached for comment."
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