Trump admin's TV consolidation giveaway sparks emergency revolt

A coalition of nonprofit groups and labor unions filed an emergency petition on Friday aimed at blocking the Federal Communications Commission’s recent repeal of a decades-old rule that limited consolidation among television broadcasters, a move that would allow media conglomerates to seize even more control over local news stations.The petition states that the Republican-controlled FCC’s decision—pushed by Chair Brendan Carr and approved in August in...