[opendtv] Re: Minority and rural groups oppose FCC's plan to change cable TV rules
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:04:05 -0800
If you're anti-free market (or a Democrat, but this might be redundant) you
start off with "women and minorities hardest hurt," but that might be
redundant.
Then, you find greenroots (you pay them) groups that claim to be women or
minorities to parrot your claims. Some of these 'groups' might have more
than one member.
I seem to remember that some of these types of groups claimed that women and
minorities would be shut out of the 500-channel universe.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Manfredi, Albert E
Enviado el: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:58 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Minority and rural groups oppose FCC's plan to change
cable TV rules
Wow. I hadn't thought of the FCC effort to reduce the cable monopoly as
being "anti-diversity." I suppose such a label could generate whole new
categories of objectors. I don't follow that logic, though, even after
reading the article. How can more competitoion among umbillical service
providers, e.g. in apartment buildings, cause the price to go up? If
anything caused the price to go up, it was when the central antenna systems
were usurped by the cable company.
Certainly, "a la carte" cable would very likely eliminate many of the niche
channels, which I suppose would include the "minority" channels. Which is
why I always wondered why Craig keeps asking for a la carte choice, and then
complains about how hard it is for small producers to get their stuff out on
TV systems.
Bert
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