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Q!!mG7VJxZNCI11 Aug 2018 - 9:51:36 AM

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FAKE NEWS consolidation [propaganda arm of the D party].
Define Antitrust Law(s).
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws📁
The Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize."
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws📁
"The FTC's competition mission is to enforce the rules of the competitive marketplace — the antitrust laws. These laws promote vigorous competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive mergers and business practices."
Reconcile.
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[reed13k]

I’m fairly certain GE sold off most of those media properties - forget who they went to though.

[Jack Black]

Your chart is inaccurate.

Comcast is not owned by GE. Comcast is a publicly traded company in it's own right, CMCSA on the NASDAQ.

Comcast owns NBC Universal, which they bought from GE. Per Wikipedia: " Since 2013, the company is wholly owned by Comcast, which bought GE's ownership stake."

It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue and the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia.[9] As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011,[10][11][12][13]

Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast, respectively.

So, if you want an accurate meme you should replace the GE column with Comcast, who own NBCUniversal. GE doesn't participate in media much anymore.

Another error: Time/Warner no longer exists.

On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion (including assumed Time Warner debt).[5][6] The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018,[7] after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition.[8] The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T.[9]

So that column should probably be re-lableled at AT&T.

None of these errors detracts from the main point that the media is pretty consolidated.

[softengine]

I’m pretty sure GE divested the stock-sinker NBC by 2011....maybe 2012. But don’t quote me on that.

[stylin19a]

not quite right

News Corps (Murdoch owned) owns Fox australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp#United_States

Fox News is owned by Fox Corp - i.e. still the Murdochs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation

[stylin19a]

arg...sorry..nevermind. I just looked at your posting beyond the trees and you do note it’s a 2012 graphic.