Random violence.(the attempted acquisition of Random House Inc. by Bertelsmann AG has been blocked by a Department of Justice lawsuit)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Nation, The, April, 1998 by Alterman, Eric
The Justice Department filed suit Monday to block Bertelsmann's planned acquisition of Random House, contending that a combination of these two leading publishers posed a threat to the nation's intellectual defenses.
"This merger isn't just about dollars and cents," Attorney General Janet Reno said in announcing the litigation, "it's about saving lives. "Our decision is not based on new policy," another U.S. official explained. "What's changed dramatically is the environment. Where we once had around 50 main publishing houses, now we have about five."
The above story appeared almost word-for-word in The New York Times the day after the Bertelsmann/Random House merger with one slight difference: It wasn't about books but about bombs. The merger in...
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