The UK news media has been rattled by confirmation that commercial broadcaster ITV has entered talks to sell its core business to Comcast-owned Sky for £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion). But while British tabloids catastrophize over the end of broadcast sovereignty, what is the view from the US press? Firstly, if this deal between ITV and Sky is waved through by competition regulators, it will deeply disrupt the UK broadcast space. The merger would create the largest commercial broadcaster in the UK, and would mark the biggest consolidation of British broadcast assets in two decades. Due to this being a UK-centric deal within comparatively tiny borders, there are few deep dives into the proposed deal from US news outlets and industry…