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Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media
pizen writes "Washington Monthly has an article from Ted Turner where he talks about the problems with the media conglomerates and calls for them to be busted: 'At this late stage, media companies have grown so large and powerful, and their dominance has become so detrimental to the survival of small, emerging companies, that there remains only one alternative: bust up the big conglomerates.'"
I thought Ted Turner owned them all...
Pot? Kettle? Black?
Ted Turner is still just irritated that HIS media conglomerate was hijacked by AOL in the bubble years.
-Joe
...that Ted Turner sees this whole conglomerate issue too much in black and white.
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In other words, Ted's pissed that the nasty evil conservative Fox News Channel is more popular and less vilified than CNN, so now it's time to change the rules.
I'm sure Big Media was perfectly fine to Ted back in the AOL-Time-Warner heyday, but now, his empire's receded, it's time to lop the winners off at the knees. Why should he care now -- after all, he's made his Big Media money.
Wah wah, Ted Turner. Wah waaaaaaaah.
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