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More on Media Consolidation/Deregulation
I'll try to accumulate some links not previously posted. William Safire comments. The Register has an editorial; see also The Guardian for more on the British perspective. Associated Press story. The Washington Post has a good and lengthy (and rare) piece. The phone companies are making a cynical political announcement that they've agreed on a standard for fiber-to-the-home; that doesn't mean they'll ever use the standard, and indeed they've already promised *not* to roll it out anytime soon. Note that the FCC is removing any requirement for the Bells to share their fiber, so if Verizon runs fiber to your house, you'll be able to get Verizon service or none at all.
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When was the FCC sold to the telco's and the media?
To arch conservatives? CNN's the network that kept Pat Buchanan employed for so many years!
To the FCC chairman? This will create a monopoly and hence drive up prices...As an analogy in my apartment I can only get DirecTV and boy, they are so expensive! Not sure if cable has changed, but I was paying about $30 ess for the same service.
Now it looks like fiber to the home is going the same way, huge price and with little choice.
Chairman of the FCC should be given two choices; Resign or be fired.
StarTux
Good thought. I think I'll rent a backhoe and repeatedly cut their phonelines around the local area until they run out of twisted sister pair and put in the good stuff.
Perhaps I could keep frying their lines by pumping power outlet juice down the wire periodically when there are storms in the broad vicinity so it can get blamed on lightening strikes.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
Where should I get my NEWS from?!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sell bonds, build, hope you make money on it and then pay for it over a few decades plus interest.
<Imagined Corporate Rant>
*Hope* you make money? Over a few decades?? Listen pal, we've got to show a profit, and we've got to show it this quarter. Decades? I plan to be sipping umbrella drinks on a beach somewhere in a decade, not wondering if we'll finally get a return on our investment. Wake up and smell the business plan, friend. Make money now! Make money fast! Screw everything else.
</Imagined Corporate Rant>
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Oh yes and it was all Ted Turner's fault. He called the local office to make sure they got your screwed up because he did not like you very much. This is because he is very interested in you as a person. He has followed you from your birth to today and has daily updates on what you do, who you talk to, where you go and of course what channels you watch on TV.
Some of his co-workers claim that his obession with you and your life is the reason aol-warner stock has taken a beating and there is probably some truth to that.
War is necrophilia.