Filmmakers should fight the Comcast/Time Warner merger.
As the WGA points out:”Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable is bad for everyone: content creators, programmers, suppliers, and consumers. As writers know all too well, media consolidation leads to already too powerful companies limiting competition.”
Paul Krugman in the NY Times asks “when & why did (America) stop worrying about monopoly power?”, and points out that if the merger was allowed to go forward “Comcast would have even more power than it already does to dictate terms to the providers of content for its digital pipes”.
Read his piece here: http://nyti.ms/1f8P1fP
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