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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: As the DirecTV-Disney carriage dispute continues, DirecTV nudges customers to Fubo or Sling and offers a $30 credit, and Disney offers $30 off Hulu with Live TV -
Todd Spangler / Variety: DirecTV plans price increases on October 6: DirecTV Stream Choice will go up by $6 to $114.99 per month, and DirecTV Stream Ultimate by $10 to $129.99 per month -
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sinclair ousts Ken Solomon, CEO of the Tennis Channel since 2005, citing his time spent advising Dr. Phil McGraw's company as a growing distraction -
Reuters: YouTube terminates Tenet Media's channel and four channels operated by Tenet owner Lauren Chen — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Thursday it was terminating … -
Wired: An analysis of Tenet Media's videos shows frequent use of terms including “white people”, “Black people”, “civil war”, “Elon Musk”, and “illegal immigrants” -
Anna Merlan / Mother Jones: A Tenet Media contributor tweeted that Tenet “has ended”; its X, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble pages are online but haven't been updated since the indictment -
Adam Nossiter / New York Times: Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81 -
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program -
Parker Molloy / New Republic: Media “sanewashing”, or reframing Trump's incoherent and dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, is a form of misinfo that distorts reality -
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: Sources: Shari Redstone will get $180M in severance and other benefits on top of $350M from the sale of her 20% stake in National Amusements -
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9 -
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBC plans to cut The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from five to four original episodes per week in the new season, the last to join its late-night rivals -
Megan Cassella / CNBC: In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including media execs James Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Mark Cuban, and Barry Diller