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Comcast/ TimeWarner merger will create monopoly on media
Former FCC Commissioner Warns About Comcast-Time Warner Merger, "Mindless" Media Consolidation
Comcast has announced plans to buy Time Warner Cable at a cost of more than $45 billion in stock. The takeover would allow Comcast to provide cable service to a third of American households and give it a virtual monopoly in 19 of the 20 largest media markets. While Comcast has claimed the deal will be "pro-consumer," the group Free Press warns the deal would be a "disaster" for consumers. Analysts predict Comcast will launch a lobbying blitz similar to when it won approval to take over NBCUniversal in 2011. Comcast has already hired FCCCommissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who signed off on its NBCdeal. We speak to another former FCC commissioner, Michael Copps. He now leads the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause.
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@ http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/17/former_fcc_commissioner_warns_about_comcast
Comcast has announced plans to buy Time Warner Cable at a cost of more than $45 billion in stock. The takeover would allow Comcast to provide cable service to a third of American households and give it a virtual monopoly in 19 of the 20 largest media markets. While Comcast has claimed the deal will be "pro-consumer," the group Free Press warns the deal would be a "disaster" for consumers. Analysts predict Comcast will launch a lobbying blitz similar to when it won approval to take over NBCUniversal in 2011. Comcast has already hired FCCCommissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who signed off on its NBCdeal. We speak to another former FCC commissioner, Michael Copps. He now leads the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause.
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@ http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/17/former_fcc_commissioner_warns_about_comcast
No Mike, please show it to me. You can't because you speak with ego and not facts.
Where I live, they do not have cable access as yet as not enuff houses in my area to make it profitable. So I have dish satelite. Yes it requires a two year contract but the first year I pay like 30.00 a month and it doubles the second year but the practice is to switch it out the second year to a competitor and you can get it for about 20.00 or 30.00 from them as well and they pay the termination fee for buy out of the contract.
Every time it rains, gone is the signal......Lots of people have gone to live streaming or netflix for 10.00 bucks a month but no local channels with that.
My guess is they will end up regulating everything and that includes the internet to control things like live streaming from competitors.
I long for the days of a old antenna on top of the house.
Every time it rains, gone is the signal......Lots of people have gone to live streaming or netflix for 10.00 bucks a month but no local channels with that.
My guess is they will end up regulating everything and that includes the internet to control things like live streaming from competitors.
I long for the days of a old antenna on top of the house.
"to try to make people believe he's trying to preserve freedom, when in fact, he's trying to take freedom away."
Isn't Obama giving the masses the freedom (heavy handedly trying to force private enterprises involvement) to get a newgovernment "myIRA" (lol)
In which "the accounts will solely invest in government savings bonds. They will also be backed by the U.S. government, meaning that savers can never lose their principal investment."--never lose their money but make almost nothing on interest while financing the massive US debt.
He's a con artist,apparently not content with just the huge profits the government is making on their seizure of fannie and freddie..--
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-21/fannie-mae-to-pay-u-s-7-2-bln-after-quarterly-profit.html
Isn't Obama giving the masses the freedom (heavy handedly trying to force private enterprises involvement) to get a newgovernment "myIRA" (lol)
In which "the accounts will solely invest in government savings bonds. They will also be backed by the U.S. government, meaning that savers can never lose their principal investment."--never lose their money but make almost nothing on interest while financing the massive US debt.
He's a con artist,apparently not content with just the huge profits the government is making on their seizure of fannie and freddie..--
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-21/fannie-mae-to-pay-u-s-7-2-bln-after-quarterly-profit.html
"The easiest way to manipulate people is to let them think they are free when in fact, they are not." I've read that this is an Obama tactic -- to try to make people believe he's trying to preserve freedom, when in fact, he's trying to take freedom away.
If only something being against the constitution stopped the ugliness being done to the American public we wouldn't be in the mess we are in.
The easiest way to manipulate people is to let them think they are free when in fact, they are not.
The easiest way to manipulate people is to let them think they are free when in fact, they are not.
Your dementia seems to be rearing its ugly head again.
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