TikTok Omerta, Biden Media Games & The End of Pay TV

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of the best new journalism on Puck.

First up today, Matt Belloni and John Ourand break down the multibillion-dollar Sunday Ticket penalty facing the NFL, an antitrust reckoning that could could rapidly remake the world of live sports on streaming—and accelerate the crack-up of linear TV.

Plus, below the fold: Eriq Gardner examines why Hollywood has been sitting on the sidelines as the TikTok ban heads to court. Dylan Byers and Peter Hamby dig into the Washington media reckoning surrounding debate-gate. Then Marion Maneker examines how a decade of collectors entering the art world with an “investment mindset” seems to have choked off the market—and what happens if everyone decides to head for the exits all at once.

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MATTHEW BELLONI

Matt is joined by Puck’s John Ourand to break down the multibillion-dollar NFL Sunday Ticket lawsuit. John explains how this bill could actually balloon to nearly $15 billion under antitrust law, how this will impact Sunday Ticket’s new distributor, YouTube, and whether this could impact the greater sports media rights landscape.

ERIQ GARDNER

Despite its free speech history, Hollywood isn’t joining the First Amendment challenges to the U.S. government’s TikTok ban. A deep dive into why studio heads, producers, and writers might be making the wrong call.

PETER HAMBY & DYLAN BYERS

Dylan Byers joins Peter to dig into into the Washington media reaction to debate-gate—the self-righteousness, anger, frustration, and general sense that the age issue, once deemed too sensitive, is all that matters.

MARION MANEKER

Art advisor Jacob King offers a thesis that absolutely no one wants to hear: After a decade of collectors entering the market with an “investment mindset,” the inevitable high prices that have resulted seem to have choked off the market. So what happens if everyone decides to head for the exits all at once?