I don't think it's ever happened. The way it happened in the show is the way it happens in real life, whether with major media orgs or large corporate organizations in general.

Had Logan been taken down by the DOJ this season it would've been the most unrealistic aspect of the show thus far haha.


>RE: When has DOJ or a whistleblower brought down a media network tho?
>They made it pretty clear from the very first episode this
>season that Kendall’s battle was going to be insanely
>uphill— and that he’d have to stop tripping over his own
>dick. And he’s incapable of that. It gave Kendall a
>tremendous arc to play, but it was unlikely to bring down his
>dad’s company unless he could recruit his siblings to join.
>
>And the DOJ thing still netted two huuuuuuge fallout points:
>1. The President’s out, so next season, they’ll clearly
>have to deal with a loose cannon. 2. It reportedly hurt
>RoyCo’s value enough that Logan had to seriously consider
>that pivot from buying to selling.
>
>As I said somewhere above (and as Tom said explicitly), guys
>like Logan don’t go down until they’re dead. And there are
>so many interesting places they can go from here. If the deal
>goes through, what do the kids do? Is Tom actually helped by
>Logan, a guy he clearly shouldn’t trust? Like others here,
>I’m skeptical Logan is cool with just cashing out and
>abdicating, so he’s got to have other moves up his sleeve.
>If the deal doesn’t go through, Logan’s just galvanized
>his kids against him. How does that play out? What does Shiv
>do with Tom? How does the new presidency affect them? What the
>fuck does Kendall do, and do his siblings ever use the “I
>killed a kid” against him?
>
>I don’t need a “resolution”— it’d feel too tidy, too
>outside of real life. I expect Logan to remain obscenely
>powerful and borderline untouchable until he dies, as all
>these media patriarchs do. I expect the kids to continue to
>try to jockey for position. I expect Tom and Greg to keep
>scraping up the ladder as they do. As long as the dialogue is
>this sharp and the turns are this brilliantly structured, I
>don’t really care what they do. I’ll be there.