NAB's Kaplan Blasts Kressin Powers White Paper
Law firm Kressin Powers’ recent white paper (see 2512040058) calling for strict broadcast-ownership regulation is “obviously sponsored by the pay-TV industry” and “so confident in its paid-for arguments that not a single attorney attached their name to it,” wrote NAB…
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Chief Legal Officer Rick Kaplan in a blog post Friday. If “genuine harm existed” from the proposed Nexstar/Tegna deal and broadcast consolidation, “the authors could show market-by-market evidence, the only place where harm could occur,” Kaplan wrote. “Instead, we get sweeping national aggregates that mean nothing in a [designated market area]-based regulatory system. It’s statistical cosplay dressed up as scholarship.” The paper “reads like pay TV-funded fan fiction about restoring a broadcast world that hasn’t existed since Reagan’s first term, complete with cherry-picked numbers, nostalgia-soaked storytelling and an extraordinary amount of confidence for a report no one was willing to sign,” Kaplan said.