Friday, December 3, 2010

Tell the FCC to Stop the NBC/Comcast merger



Bernie Sanders:

We need your help!

Join Sen. Sanders in telling the FCC why you don’t support the proposed Comcast-NBC merger.

Please fill out the form here and tell the FCC what you think by simply hitting "send email".

Comcast, the country’s largest cable provider, and NBC Universal, one of the country’s largest media conglomerates, want to combine forces and pad their bottom line. But at a time when a small number of giant media corporations already control what the American people see, hear, and read, we do not need another media conglomerate with control over the production and distribution of the news. What we need is less concentration of ownership, more diversity, more local ownership, and more viewpoints.

In an effort to push the merger through, Comcast and NBC have ramped up their lobbying efforts and their campaign donations. Comcast alone donated to half the Senate and three quarters of the House in the last election cycle. It looks like Comcast is trying to buy this deal, and as a result, no one is paying attention to the $2.4 billion worth of harm that a former Chief Economist for the FCC estimates such a merger would cause millions of consumers like you.


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