The proposed merger of the nation’s two largest cable companies, Comcast and Time-Warner, into one gigantic mega-telecom corporation is being slammed by the people that will be most impacted if the deal goes through: customers.
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As the Associated Press, in a piece highlighting the angst of cable users nationwide, reports:
And that’s the argument of media experts and those who have long said that the continued consolidation of major media companies is an attack on the public interest. As journalist Dan Gillmore, who directs the Knight Center for Digital Media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, writes at the Guardian:
And Michael Hiltzik writes at the Los Angeles Times: “Let’s get to the bottom line. There’s no way this combination can conceivably be in the public interest. The deal is a blunt challenge to the Federal Communications Commission and its new chairman, Tom Wheeler; the question is whether the FCC will fold against the economic and political power of these two behemoths.”
Comcast’s acquisition of Time Warner, argues Hiltzik, “will simply expand the geographical area subject to its ruthless competitive practices.”
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