MSNBC's Big Fail: Deafening Silence on Comcast-Time Warner Merger

[Type Username Here]

Rachel, Chris, Ed, Al, Lawrence, Chris....say it ain't so.

Nary a mention of the gigundo merger between Comcast and Time Warner.

You are, all of you, about speaking truth to power.

Rachel, you just did a piece on Oklahoma's new law taxing individuals who install solar panels. Oklahoma is a big oil-producing state.

So, what do you expect the legislature to do, unless of course they were operating in the public interest as they are supposed to do? Was that not the point of your expose?

But, how can you even feign surprise or try to hold them to a higher standard when you and your colleagues ignore the major telecommunications issue of the year because, it appears, your paymaster is one of the beneficiaries?

Please, tell me I am wrong. That it is pure coincidence. That if you did an expose you would honestly come out in favor of the merger anyhow.

Ed, convince me that this merger is in the best interests of country. Convince me that you would hold that view even if you were not an employee of the network.

Where is your truth? When will you speak that to your powerful bosses?

Or, are you just fooling us? That, far from trying to reverse the trend toward oligarchy, that you are really part of it, even if the trailing edge?

Say it ain't so.

MSNBC's Big Fail: Deafening Silence on Comcast-Time Warner Merger|Paul Abrams

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

doesn't comcast own NBC?

edit: nevermind I guess it mentions it in the article.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Coppers was watchin us thru nighttime binoculars
this time they got us on tape exchanging dope for dollars
make me wanna, holla back at the crib in the sauna
praying my people bailed out like Time/Warner

:hovlol:

 

[Type Username Here]

doesn't comcast own NBC?

edit: nevermind I guess it mentions it in the article.

They do.

That's why they are quiet on Net Neutrality and the merger. Same with Comcast and the Daily Show. The Daily Show was one of the first shows on TV to really cast a light on net neutrality back in 06. They have been mostly silent on that issue since early 2011. Not a peep.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Watch mainstream news and expect to get actual news brehs..

 

[Bolzmark]

We know those guys don't have the final say so on what they talk about on their shows. And to be fair, I wouldn't put the merger of two ENTERTAINMENT companies on the level of importance as GOVERNMENT taxing people trying to help the environment.

 

[Type Username Here]

We know those guys don't have the final say so on what they talk about on their shows. And to be fair, I wouldn't put the merger of two ENTERTAINMENT companies on the level of importance as GOVERNMENT taxing people trying to help the environment.

Why wouldn't you?

These are two huge companies. They each control a significant chunk of Internet access and have huge lobbying reaches, and it will border on a monopoly in certain areas. They are also leading the charge on Internet control measures which are highly detrimental to the public.