Comcast Merger Bad for Consumers, Free Press and Parents Television Council Say

While Comcast and industry groups want us to think that their mega-media merger is good for business, we’re reminding everyone that it’s a bad deal for consumers.

Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver teamed up with Tim Winters, the president of the Parents Television Council, to pen an editorial in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer about how the merger would harm the public.

They say:

What can consumers expect from this marriage? Higher prices for cable television and Internet access. Less local, diverse programming and independent media. More sensationalism and even fewer family-friendly content choices.

If you think you're already paying too much to watch TV or go online, if you care about open and unfettered Internet access, or if you worry about what your kids see, you have good reason to object to this wedding. And you'd better speak now or forever pay the price.

Read the full editorial, and then go do something about it.

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