What is with the bias against large companies? It always amazes me that almost everyone on Slashdot is against any large company simply BECAUSE it's a large company. What's so bad with a large company controlling more of what you see and hear? Think about it logically... which might be tough for some of you government-school-educated youngsters...
A company is concerned with profit. Profit comes from customers. Customers come from people that are pleased with what you provide. If you don't please people with what you provide, you don't get customers, and you don't make a profit. If you don't make a profit, you go out of business, and someone else takes your place. The Big Corporations aren't the enemy... the public is the enemy. If the public is diversified enough to demand more variety in their television and radio, then the Big Corporations will create more programming to suit those needs. If those needs aren't being filled, a new company will be formed to fill them (and at worst, the Big Corporation will buy the small company when it becomes a menace to their profits, but the Big Corporation will keep the programming that made them successful, thus increasing their profit).
I don't see how politics has anything to do with the FCC's decision, but as long as you bring it up, nobody said anything when ABC, CBS, and NBC were the only stations in the market, so why worry now that Fox (and Rupert Murdoch) are becoming successful? Again, the law of supply and demand kicks in.
Step 1: Demand conservative-biased news reporting.
Step 2: Supply conservative-biased news reporting.
Step 3: Profit!
>Why is this so difficult to understand?
I don't think it's the understanding that's the problem. The problem is that "understanding" isn't enough to make a person except any information from one source. "This is how business works"? Give me a break. When a business doesn't listen to it's customers and the customers get fed up, they will leave.
Considering the FCC is a business, I don't expect many people to favor them in the right in years to come.
>With all the coverage it's getting, you can >hardly say that the "current regime" is "NOT >interested in anything that might produce news >media that isn't 100% behind" them. It's the >simplest of economic rules and it's been >working since the dawn of time
So because people have been racist to each other from the beginning of time, we should have just ignored Martin Luther King and Malcolm X out of simplistic laziness?
>Why are you so afraid of a little competition >from someone who obviously understand economics?
It's not the fear my friend. It's the mere fact that there is no competition, and it's not just done by the consumers in terms of their choice. It's in the way they advertise, and in the way they bully out local businesses. I don't honestly think you know what your talking about, and one other person I know at work has told me this dumbshit.
But then he lives in the suburbs.:)
The point is, I should be able to get my news from other sources. Not one. Regardless of how the world does things, it's still wrong.
-matt
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What is with the bias against large companies? It always amazes me that almost everyone on Slashdot is against any large company simply BECAUSE it's a large company. What's so bad with a large company controlling more of what you see and hear? Think about it logically... which might be tough for some of you government-school-educated youngsters... A company is concerned with profit. Profit comes from customers. Customers come from people that are pleased with what you provide. If you don't please people with what you provide, you don't get customers, and you don't make a profit. If you don't make a profit, you go out of business, and someone else takes your place. The Big Corporations aren't the enemy... the public is the enemy. If the public is diversified enough to demand more variety in their television and radio, then the Big Corporations will create more programming to suit those needs. If those needs aren't being filled, a new company will be formed to fill them (and at worst, the Big Corporation will buy the small company when it becomes a menace to their profits, but the Big Corporation will keep the programming that made them successful, thus increasing their profit). I don't see how politics has anything to do with the FCC's decision, but as long as you bring it up, nobody said anything when ABC, CBS, and NBC were the only stations in the market, so why worry now that Fox (and Rupert Murdoch) are becoming successful? Again, the law of supply and demand kicks in. Step 1: Demand conservative-biased news reporting. Step 2: Supply conservative-biased news reporting. Step 3: Profit! >Why is this so difficult to understand? I don't think it's the understanding that's the problem. The problem is that "understanding" isn't enough to make a person except any information from one source. "This is how business works"? Give me a break. When a business doesn't listen to it's customers and the customers get fed up, they will leave. Considering the FCC is a business, I don't expect many people to favor them in the right in years to come. >With all the coverage it's getting, you can >hardly say that the "current regime" is "NOT >interested in anything that might produce news >media that isn't 100% behind" them. It's the >simplest of economic rules and it's been >working since the dawn of time So because people have been racist to each other from the beginning of time, we should have just ignored Martin Luther King and Malcolm X out of simplistic laziness? >Why are you so afraid of a little competition >from someone who obviously understand economics? It's not the fear my friend. It's the mere fact that there is no competition, and it's not just done by the consumers in terms of their choice. It's in the way they advertise, and in the way they bully out local businesses. I don't honestly think you know what your talking about, and one other person I know at work has told me this dumbshit. But then he lives in the suburbs. :)
The point is, I should be able to get my news from other sources. Not one. Regardless of how the world does things, it's still wrong.
-matt