The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. The deal, we heard, would be a “disaster for consumers,” and “bad for America.” It would create a “bully in the schoolyard” who could “cement the kind of monolithic monopolies that have plagued cable subscribers all along” and lead to a long-feared “media dystopia.”
The Comcast-Time Warner Merger Is Not a Sign of Strength
There is no “cable industry” anymore.
February 18, 2014
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