Looks like Disney's Iger got a phone call from Soros
Looks like Disney's Iger got a phone call from Soros
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to ignore Disney and despise ESPN.
Their should be massive fines for any "media" company that engages in practices such as this. Hit them with a billion dollar penalty and potential loss of their licenses, and I bet this sort of bullsh*t will stop.
People who "own" the airwaves cannot be allowed to make them into a one sided propaganda system. We have to smash the liberal propaganda system.
Once again, President Trump must begin the process of breaking up the media oligopoly. They are now only five, maybe six corporations that control most media in the US.
And these five or six are controlled by just 14 billionaires.
This is not just profoundly anti-democratic, but anti-republican-democratic. For them to retain control deeply harms America and much of the rest of the world.
It is far worse than the old late 19th and early 20th Century trusts.
“The Sherman Act of 1890 attempted to outlaw the restriction of competition by large companies, who co-operated with rivals to fix outputs, prices and market shares, initially through pools and later through trusts.
“Trusts first appeared in the US railroads, where the capital requirement of railroad construction precluded competitive services in then scarcely settled territories. This trust allowed railroads to discriminate on rates imposed and services provided to consumers and businesses and to destroy potential competitors.
“Different trusts could be dominant in different industries. The Standard Oil Company trust in the 1880s controlled a number of markets, including the market in fuel oil, lead and whiskey. Vast numbers of citizens became sufficiently aware and publicly concerned about how the trusts negatively impacted them that the Act became a priority for both major parties.”
But you see the problem today? Vast numbers of citizens are being *prevented* from becoming aware of the media oligopoly *by* the oligopoly.
What the Sherman Act was *supposed* to do was create a situation where competitive markets themselves should provide the primary regulation of prices, outputs, interests and profits.
But instead, the Act outlawed anticompetitive practices, codifying the common law restraint of trade doctrine. Far less than what was hoped for.
In short, by today’s standards, the law *only* breaks up corporations that are so egregiously *monopolistic*, as well as having laws written to keep them monopolies by preventing competition, that to enforce the Act is a very rare thing. Think the break up of AT&T.
So instead, corporations create oligopolies, that *act* effectively as monopolies, buying up any resources that could be used by competitors outside of the monopoly.
While many of us abhor the Federal Communications Commission, because of its leftist efforts to censor conservative speech, and otherwise block conservative voices from the media; while giving free reign to leftist and liberal big media; we need to take advantage of some of its tricks *against* the media oligopoly, before abolishing the FCC.
One of these was to limit what *types* of media a given company could own, and how many total it could own in the major markets.
For example, a media company typically controls Internet, TV, radio, newspapers, book publishing, entertainment development, music, movies and video, and live entertainment.
They need to be given an FCC directive that if they control something, such as TV, they cannot also control radio, print, or whatever *in the same market*. Then they need to be stimulated to spin off daughter companies with different owners, boards of directors and investors. This especially includes a strong control over proxies in either group.
President Trump needs to do this both to insure his administration will be treated fairly, and that America benefits from information diversity.
Disney just lost my patronage for the next 4 years.
ESPN is dying, this is why.
ESPN has been dead to me for a while.
This was the last straw for Disney.
Flipped over to ESPN last night and the first thing they show is Greg Popovich criticizing Trump.