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Let media consolidation fight itself







Let media consolidation fight itself

Let media consolidation fight itself 02/16/2004 01:29 PM

Dan Gillmor finds himself reluctantly supporting a Comcast-Disney merger:

"Yet, oddly, I find myself hoping the Comcast-Disney deal goes through. The temptation to discriminate in favor of its own content will surely be irresistible to the merged company. Perhaps that will finally wake up the public, if not Congress, to the threat. Nothing else has, so far."

Whether Comcast or someone else buys Disney, it will provoke a debate about the implications of media consolidation and the marriage of content and conduit.  If the merger partners say (as they surely will) that they won't discriminate against unaffiliated content and applications, they should have no objection to a public commitment to that effect.  




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