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AT&T and BellSouth: New Media Monopoly
Have you seen The News Is What We Make It? This claymation highlights the dangers of our media landscappe being monopolized by 7 conglomerates. And a new giant is emerging. Timothy Carr of Free Press writes today on AlterNet: The aim of AT&T's $67 billion merger is to assemble a new behemoth to dominate the "triple play" of modern communications: voice, video and data. In the near future, all new media -- telephone calls, radio, television or the web -- will travel via a broadband connection to your home. The corporations that control this network are racing to gobble up as many competitors as possible before consumers complete the new media shift. Left behind, of course, is the American public. As large telecom companies merge and jockey for position with the cable industry over the most lucrative broadband markets, the communities at the edges have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide. Read the entire article Learn more from Free PressPublished on March 9, 2006
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