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This week on CounterSpin: AT&T and Time Warner are two global corporate powerhouses who will soon be one global corporate powerhouse, after a ruling by a district court judge didn’t just pave the way for their megamerger, but virtually strewed their path with flowers. It’s true the government didn’t make much of a case, and that the judge doesn’t seem to understand how the internet works; but the deeper truth may be that we need to fundamentally rethink our antitrust approaches to a media/tech industry that is every day more influential. We’ll talk with technology journalist Nilay Patel of The Verge about that.
Transcript: ‘AT&T Only Buys Time Warner Once in a Lifetime’
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Also on the show: A case doesn’t have to be won to have impact. Witness federal prosecutors’ strenuous effort to put someone in prison for protests at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Charges were just dropped against another group of so-called J20 activists, but just because the state’s case is unraveling—and elite journalists don’t care about it—doesn’t mean the effort to criminalize constitutionally protected activity doesn’t matter. We’ll catch up on the J20 case with Sam Menefee-Libey, an organizer and member of the DC Legal Posse.
Transcript: ‘Media Coverage of This Case Has Been Sloppy When Present at All’
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And Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of a racist Senate candidate.
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There shouldn’t be any advertisement on the Internet. To me, the whole innovation of the Internet was no advertising; no corporate intermediaries. The Googles, Yahoos and Facebooks of the Internet are ruining even that.
I finally caught up on archived Counterspin shows through late May. Entering FAIR.org through Internet Explorer now, the archive started just at June 22. My recent podcast experiences with this site have been distressingly variable.
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As webmaster for FAIR, I sent to you an email with more detailed information, but perhaps it didn’t reach you? I’ll send it again, along with my contact information, and welcome you to contact me directly for assistance.
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