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Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for February to talk about Chicagoland's black sites, climate control and not-

The ‘false-on-its-face’ telecom claim of increased costs to consumers is designed to protect their unregulated monopolies that charge too much and provide terrible service.

We've been talking about the eye-popping corruption of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo-- and Democratic Party version of shady Republican governors Christie, McDonnell, Walker, and Deal, all of whom, like Cuomo, are under federal investigation.

When a federal court trashed its “net neutrality” compromise policy in January, the Federal Communications Commission assured us that the Internet we knew and depended on was safe. Most activists didn’t believe federal officials and this past week the FCC demonstrated how realistic our cynicism was.

Last week Robert Reich penned a column about the Comcast acquisition of TimeWarner for his blog that I've been meaning to pass along, Antitrust in the New Guilded Age. I was a senior executive at TimeWarner when the horrific AOL merger happened. It's what led to me deciding to retire.

Peter B. Collins Presents Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps

"Comcast perfectly fits the old notion of monopolists as robber barons, so-called by analogy with medieval warlords who perched in their castles overlooking the Rhine, extracting tolls from all who passed.

In his 1995 article for Business On A Small Planet, Corporations and the Public Interest, Jonathan Rowe helped put the intent behind the rise of corporations into a perspective that has been lost over the decades.

This week Comcast, which is fast becoming a monolith, purchased Time-Warner Cable. Comcast claims the deal does not reduce competition because the two companies serve different areas of the country. (In another decade, the argument was used by oil giants claiming the gas stations of purchased companies did not overlap with the buyer’s). For Comcast, Time-Warner brings with it the very important New York, Los Angeles and Dallas markets. Is not size by itself power?

by KenMy first thought on hearing of Comcast's acquisition Time Warner Cable (which as far as I can tell is a more accurate description than a "merger" of the country's no. 1 and no. 2 cable-TV companies) was: They're not gonna let that happen, are they?