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Ele'ill
18th January 2011, 21:44
Ongoing struggle against media monopoly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/comcastrophy-comcastnbc-m_b_810380.html

graymouser
18th January 2011, 22:05
I've sort of had FreePress (Josh Silver and Bob McChesney's advocacy group around this) on my radar for a long time, but what I haven't seen out of them is any discussion of "what is to be done" to fight back against the corporate media beyond online petitions and writing your congressperson or the FCC, when all of those avenues are futile. The gigantic media conglomerates are a public danger but there is no traction whatsoever to make the airwaves (at least radio and broadcast TV) back into a public good. I don't have any good answers for that one in the short term, but unfortunately I don't think Josh Silver does either.

Amphictyonis
24th January 2011, 06:25
Ongoing struggle against media monopoly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/comcastrophy-comcastnbc-m_b_810380.html

Who is the primary shareholder of Comcast?

EDIT-
"AT&T shareholders will control 56 percent of the new company and about 66 percent of the voting interests"

So the primary shareholder of AT&T controls Comcast (basically). Who's the primary bloodsucker of AT&T?

Rusty Shackleford
27th January 2011, 08:40
Who is the primary shareholder of Comcast?

EDIT-
"AT&T shareholders will control 56 percent of the new company and about 66 percent of the voting interests"

So the primary shareholder of AT&T controls Comcast (basically). Who's the primary bloodsucker of AT&T?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_L._Stephenson