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In 1980 we had fifty major media companies in this country. Now its six Media Corporations. All that power and influence concentrated into the hands of a few men. Do you think the men that run those Corporations have any love for traditional America or have they done everything they could to undermine it? The last thing we need is for those Corporations to get larger and more powerful.

I wouldn't mind a merger that controlled costs for providing access without cutting service. This wouldn't meet the test. Less call centers, less local contact with service problems, less attention to problems in smaller markets. That always hurts smaller individual markets in mergers.

It isn't just access. I get minimum cable TV, though instead just getting a better antenna for over the air stations is tempting. The problem is they control what I see. Why am I stuck with a religious-themed station, two stations of people gibbering in hispanic, and only stations which toe their line? It will only get worse and the offerings even less geared to local offerings if they merge. Remember back when cable TV started out? It was supposed to provide access for local, innovative programming in studios and channels they provided.