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Without Net Neutrality, large phone and cable companies will take control of the stories we tell, deciding who gets a voice and who doesn’t.

The decision may have arrived too late for Sinclair’s proposed bid for Tribune — though it could help other suitors for the Chicago-based broadcaster.

The questionable maneuvers that triggered the FCC’s slow-down of the Sinclair-Tribune deal represent only a fraction of the regulatory tricks Sinclair uses.

Large ISPs are trying to control the internet, restrict the free flow of information and restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear.

Free Press v. FCC, a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, could upend the deal just as easily.

Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to placate federal regulators but the FCC still voted unanimously to have a judge review the company's deal to buy Tribune Media.

Advocates welcomed Rep. Mike Coffman’s decision as a vital step toward convincing more Republicans to support the petition and the resolution.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has vowed to revise its station-divestiture plan in an effort to salvage its $3.9-billion acquisition of Tribune Media.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is seeking to submit aspects of the merger to an administrative law judge, a first step toward blocking the deal.

FCC Chairman Pai raised concerns about the controversial deal and proposed a review by an administrative law judge.