Poor service and outrageously high bills are the costs of living under lightly regulated media oligopolies--which is the broader context for why such a merger deserves close regulatory scrutiny from the Justice Department and from the Federal Communications Commission regarding, respectively, antitrust and public interest concerns.
The allegations have come under further scrutiny after some critics said the claims were treated more lightly by the media than if Manning had been a black player.
The rational strategy for an opponent is to ignore them or to dismiss them lightly, giving the media little reason to cover them.
Tread lightly with social media.
To ensure that prosecutors do not lightly intrude on the media's autonomy, the Justice Department requires that all subpoenas to journalists be approved by the attorney general.
Given the nature of contemporary American war-fighting (far away and generally lightly covered by the media, which has an endless stream of Trump tweets to fawn over), it's easy to forget that American troops are still dying in modest numbers in the Greater Middle East, in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and ― almost 16 years after the American invasion of that country ― Afghanistan. .
Mr. Cole said the administration does not "take lightly" such secretive trolling through media records.
The lightly regulated world of social media has created highly publicized privacy and security controversies for companies like Facebook, Google and others that collect and disseminate huge amounts of personal data from millions of users worldwide.
Holding his head high all season, responding lightly and assuredly to the media at the regular press briefings in the motor home of his Mercedes team, Schumacher hid his inevitable frustration.
So, it should be said, do journalists, who communicate far more words about politics to the public than the politicians but, with the exception of "fair and balanced" (sic) Fox News, the media get off lightly here.
