This is bad. Very, very bad. Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today. 18JUN18

IF you have not sent a letter to your representative in Congress to sign the discharge petition to bring the CRA to restore net neutrality (already passed by the Senate)  you can click here to do so. This from Demand Progress.....

Mark Stanley, DemandProgress.org	Jun 17, 2018, 5:09 PM

It's only been 5 days since net neutrality protections officially died, and already AT&T has merged with Time Warner and Comcast announced plans to buy 21st Century Fox for $65 billion.1 This merger mania is the worst-case net neutrality nightmare, with gigantic ISPs buying up content providers to control what we see and do online. Now more than ever, we need Congress to step in and reinstate net neutrality, and we're flooding Capitol Hill with phone calls, organizing in-distict, and running polls in congressional districts all over the country to show undecided members of Congress that their constituents support net neutrality. Will you chip in $5 to help convince undecided members of the House to save net neutrality? With no net neutrality rules to stop them, ISPs like Comcast and AT&T can push their subscribers to their own content—and block or throttle the rest. With AT&T taking control of CNN and HBO, it will be able throttle or block competitors like YouTube or the BBC. As part owner of Hulu, Comcast will have the incentive to censor competitors like Netflix. AT&T will be able to force users to watch CNN instead of MSNBC or PBS, while Comcast could push customers into Fox programming.2 Those of us who want to stream independent news? Good luck. Meanwhile, the small content companies, like 3M video and IFC, could be crushed. This isn’t just about entertainment. The way we communicate, conduct business, and live our civic lives will all be controlled by these ever-expanding ISPs unless we save net neutrality. The Senate has already voted to overrule the FCC and reinstate net neutrality, but to convince the House to join them, we need to convince undecided members that their constituents care about this too. Will you chip in $5 to help fight for net neutrality and organize in every key district with an undecided member of the House? Yes, I'll chip in $5. Thanks for standing with us. Mark Stanley, Demand Progress DONATE Sources: 1. CNN, "Comcast bids $65 billion for most of 21st Century Fox," June 13, 2018 2. Recode, "Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today," June 11, 2018 PAID FOR BY DEMAND PROGRESS (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Join our online community on Facebook or Twitter. Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers. Now things are up for grabs: Netflix buys stuff from the studios, but it’s making its own stuff, too, and it’s selling it directly to consumers. That’s one of the reasons older media companies are trying to compete by consolidating. And new distributors like Verizon and AT&T are getting in on the action. AT&T, for instance, wants to merge with Time Warner. Meanwhile, giant tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple that used to be on the sidelines are getting closer and closer to the action. To help sort this all out, we’ve created a diagram that organizes distributors, content companies and internet video companies by market cap and their main lines of business. Here’s what the Big Media universe currently looks like. We will update it periodically: