Response to “Liberals Bernie Sanders and Al Franken Win As Comcast Drops Time Warner Bid”
By A. Shaw
Sen. Bernie Sander and allies fight and win a big battle for the US people, a victory that may impede further erosion of the people’s First Amendment rights.
The dominant tendency today in the sphere of bourgeois propaganda is the concentration of the ownership and control of almost all of the bourgeois media into the hands of a half dozen companies or less.
Only six companies now control 90% of the bourgeois media in the USA. In the USA, the bourgeois media is often called the “US media,” even though the US people, the USA state, and mass of civil society have absolutely no say in the operation of the so called “US media.”
The six companies that now control 90% of the bourgeois propaganda are:
(I) Comcast
(2) News-Corp
(3)Disney
(4)Viacom
(5)Time Warner
(6) CBS
These six companies control almost everything you read, watch, or listen to. The result is the US people are perhaps the most brainwashed and the most intellectually oppressed people in the world.
These six companies are dissatisfied that they control only 90% of the so-called “US media” and bourgeois propaganda.
They want 100% control!
And, they want 100%Â control by fewer than six companies.
Comcast wanted to consume Time Warner, leaving on five companies in control of 90% of the bourgeois media in the USA.
“The liberal senators who stood up in opposition to the Comcast-Time Warner merger scored a major victory as Comcast has pulled out of the planned deal,” Jason Easley of PoliticusUSA reported.
It’s is not an accident that “liberal” senators blocked the Comcast-Time Warner merger. Almost all of the concentration of control and capital in the US market for propaganda ends up in the hands of the reactionary, conservative, Nazi, rotten, and animalistic sector of the bourgeoisie, not in the hands of the US bourgeoisie as a whole.
 According to PoliticusUSA reporter Jason Easley:
“Sen. Sanders (I-VT) reacted to the news by saying, “The report that Comcast is backing away from its bid to take over Time Warner Cable is good news for American consumers. The level of media consolidation in America already is unacceptable and it would have been extremely dangerous for one company to control 57 percent of the broadband Internet market, 30 percent of the cable market and dominate 19 of the 20 largest U.S metropolitan areas.â€
In 1983, only 32 years ago, 53 companies owned 90% of bourgeois media. Now, the number of companies has shrunk to six.
Hillary Clinton did not deign to enter the fray because she takes political contributions from the six companies that own 90% of the media and from the companies’ top executives.
