Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, provided a Statement, entitled "A New Age for Newspapers: Diversity of Voices, Competition and the Internet" (April 21, 2009), to the Subcommittee of Courts and Competition Policy, Committee of the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives. Mr. Shapiro, who served in that position once before, has been a Professor of Business and Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley since 1990.

Mr. Shapiro’s conclusion is that the pressures faced today by newspapers do not require any changes to antitrust enforcement principals: "We believe that antitrust analysis is forward-looking and flexible enough to take into consideration the economic and technological pressures facing newspapers as we continue to make market-by-market and case-by-case determinations pursuant to the antitrust law."

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