Free press has come along to play too.
The nonsensical, astroturf campaign against AT&T and T-Mobile
Posted on 07/22/2011 8:54:45 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The media reform cabal is at it again. The same professional Soros-funded astroturfers who brought us Van Jones to demand “media justice” and SaveTheInternet and Net Neutrality have been focused on a new target. For months now, Free Press, Media Access Project, Public Knowledge, Consumers Union, and the New America Foundation have been thwarting the proposed merger of cell phone providers AT&T and T-Mobile, saying the move would raise prices for consumers and cost jobs. As the deal sits with the FCC, which just this week temporarily halted its review of the proposal, AT&T and T-Mobile have tried to reassure consumers and activists that the merger would lower prices, increase access to service in rural areas and give consumers better choices. The AFL-CIO, which represents 42,000 AT&T workers through the CWA, agrees with AT&T and T-Mobile. Ironically, that puts the country’s most powerful labor federation on the opposite side of its progressive media reform allies.
Within weeks of its announcement, media reform groups teamed up on a new “grassroots” initiative to fight the proposed telecom merger, complete with its very own website, NoTakeover.org. Notice the website’s fine print? “This site was developed with the support of Sprint.”
That’s right, Sprint. Do you smell Astroturf?
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
It's telco astroturf + marxist astroturf. Astroturf on a whole new level.
Free press has come along to play too.
The nonsensical, astroturf campaign against AT&T and T-Mobile
If the merger happens Sprint must sense they will lose customers. However, having had ATT for many years and recently changing to T-Mobile I can’t help but hate the thought of being sucked back to ATT. A more consumer unfriendly, lying, and poor service outfit would be hard to find. I don’t doubt that they will destroy the outstanding service of T-Mobile. I’m conflicted on this one.
If the merger happens Sprint must sense they will lose customers. However, having had ATT for many years and recently changing to T-Mobile I can’t help but hate the thought of being sucked back to ATT. A more consumer unfriendly, lying, and poor service outfit would be hard to find. I don’t doubt that they will destroy the outstanding service of T-Mobile. I’m conflicted on this one.
I’m stuttering this morning!
I can’t say I think the ATT merger is exactly a good idea.
But I’m certainly not conflicted about this: I’d never turn to a marxist for solutions. That’s exactly what sprint has done.
Why can’t people learn from history? THE MARXISTS WILL EAT SPRINT TOO. They don’t care. All they want is power. They’ll team up with sprint for now, but in the end, sprint will be treated as an enemy too.
Not a net neutrality issue. Not even a media consolidation issue.
But, yes, I do see the standard industry astroturf going, Sprint not wanting possibly increased competition. This is the same kind of astroturfing most of the telcos started when net neutrality started to become an issue.
Much to your chagrin, all these issues are connected. You don’t have to believe it. That’s fine.
And it doesn’t matter what I believe.
The media marxists see these issues as connected, which is why they act in concert many times. And that’s what matters.
To the media marxists, these issues are connected. Hence, they are connected.
Media and carrier mergers have been an issue in government long before the net neutrality issue. Hell, universal service has been an issue in telecommunications for DECADES, and you try to lump it in with net neutrality.
To you, everything is about net neutrality, even when it isn’t.
It seems you realize net neutrality is a good thing, but you don’t like it, so you try to attach to it every bad thing in government. You have an extremely hard time discussing the issue itself.
———————To you, everything is about net neutrality, even when it isn’t.——————
Much to your chagrin, all these issues are connected. You don’t have to believe it. That’s fine.
And it doesn’t matter what I believe.
The media marxists see these issues as connected, which is why they act in concert many times. And that’s what matters.
To the media marxists, these issues are connected. Hence, they are connected.
——————Hell, universal service has been an issue in telecommunications for DECADES, and you try to lump it in with net neutrality.-——————
What I think doesn’t matter. What the FCC marxists think, that’s what matters. They associate net neutrality with ‘universal’, so it doesn’t matter how old it is. They’re linked.
-——————It seems you realize net neutrality is a good thing————————
I totally realize that the sales pitch would be a good thing, which is why they made it the sales pitch.
Unfortunately, they have no intention of delivering on that promise.
They want total control.
—————but you don’t like it——————
I don’t like marxism, no.
-——————You have an extremely hard time discussing the issue itself.———————
Marxists in government have been the issue since november 2nd, 2008.(or if you wish, january 20th, 2009)
In a lot of ways, it’s been the defining issue.
And the issue has been around since before that. Wake me up when you see a law or regulation concerning fairness doctrine or whatever. Don't ping me for net neutrality threads if all you're going to do is discuss other issues. Feel free to ping me when those other issues actually do show up, and you are willing to talk about those issues.
-——————And the issue has been around since before that.-—————
Your generic/bland wording is noted. Marxists in government was not an issue under Bush, Reagan, and many others the way it is today.
——————Don’t ping me for net neutrality threads if all you’re going to do is discuss other issues.——————
Much to your chagrin, all these issues are connected. You don’t have to believe it. That’s fine.
And it doesn’t matter what I believe.
The media marxists see these issues as connected, which is why they act in concert many times. And that’s what matters.
To the media marxists, these issues are connected. Hence, they are connected. And when these media marxists connect things, I’ll let people know.
If you want to put your head in the sand, you do so at your own peril. It *********WONT********** be because someone didn’t try to warn you. If these marxists are successful at their agenda items, it will be on your shoulders, and yours alone, as to why you didn’t work to try to prevent it and save your freedom.
Often times when I ping you to these threads, I put something like ‘no reply’ in them knowing we aren’t in agreement. I’m not looking to spar with you on these things anymore.
But ignorance is not something you’ll be able to claim in the future. You know the marxist history of net neutrality. And you purposefully ignore it.
In summary: Learn to stick to the issue, whatever it is.
If you can’t, don’t ping me, period.
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