Depressingly true. But the leading clubs have been lobbying like that for years and years and it hasn't got them everything they want, so far. The amount of money the Premier League attracts (and provides) in its current form is, I suppose, one reason that they stay relatively quiet nowadays...
Haven't ever seen any evidence for this. The people that run the Premier League aren't stupid commercially - far from it - and know very well that the appeal of the Premier League is provided by the relatively low differential between the money that goes to the top clubs from TV rights and those...