At least as important as the election: Time Warner/ATT merger to finalize!

[Gabi Hayes]

Last edited Sat Oct 22, 2016, 03:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Hey!!!! Obama!!!!

how on earth can you let this happen?

do you have any control over your administrators?

remember the 1996 telecommunications act, and how it brought us a long way to where we are today?

is that the road down which you want to continue?

wtf?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/21/att-could-soon-own-almost-everything-from-hbo-to-cnn-to-dc-comics/

Brian Stelter talking on CNN about his new bosses

this is where we're headed:

[liberal N proud]

1. Getting right back to Ma Bell

Monopolies reconstituted.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Ma Bell, roided out

can't even begin to imagine what's going to happen

look what happened to msnbc, as just one small example

Jeff Zucker will probably be ridden out for being to liberal!

Roger Ailes' new home?

[Ohioblue22]

4. Ma bell was broken up by the gov

[Gabi Hayes]

6. it would help if you read the post immediately before the one to which you replied

cheers!

[Silent3]

3. After reading the article, this doesn't sound all that imminent

Based on the restrictions regulators may impose to address those concerns, a merger between AT&T and Time Warner may be more trouble than it's worth, Moffett said.

“There's no industrial logic to combining content and distribution,” he said. “It sounds good in theory, but it doesn't hold up very well when you poke at it.

“I don't think you can give a merger like this much better than 50-50 odds,” he added.

If anything at all is close to be "finalized", it's only the deal AT&T and Time Warner want to make, not the government approval of that deal.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. reason I posted was because CNN/msnbc did a breaking news segment on it

as I typed it. sounded like the merger is all over but the shouting

just what we need....more concentration of media/money/power

https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Media-Poor-Democracy-Communication/dp/1565849752

I am a graduate student researching the political structure (or political economy) of the media, and have found the works of Robert McChesney to be very influential for my studies. Here he analyzes how the corporate control of the modern media affects American democracy, and his insights into these areas are both illuminating and shockingly obvious, with a real knack for bringing out common sense enlightenment in understanding the nonsensical behavior and structure of the media. McChesney strongly argues that the media is the one industry most closely connected to the democratic health of the nation, because a democracy functions best when the citizens are well informed. Thus public, and not private, control of the media is a necessity.

However, the corporate media system, dominated by well-connected elite mega-conglomerates, is actually the typehttps://www.amazon.com/Rich-Media-Poor-Democracy-Communication/dp/1565849752 of hyper-commercial oligopoly that is structurally unable (and unwilling) to give the masses true democratic choices and knowledge. McChesney's theories into how this has damaged the political health of the American people are obvious and depressing.


McChesney is also an outstanding political scientist, as he competently analyzes all sides of communications politics, from America's long-standing democratic traditions to our current ruinous domination by neoliberalism (economics) and neoconservatism (politics).

seminal work, made more relevant as fascist (big business facilitated by bought and paid for government) power grabs continue with every passing year.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. holy s...>>>even trumpster says he's against it

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-trump-att-time-warner-20161022-snap-story.html

ATT already owns Direct TV, which made them the biggest pay TV operator at that point

can't believe they're going to allow this

[Democat]

8. Supreme Court is more important than a corporate merger

Sorry.