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There’s nothing like a $30 billion media mega-merger to get public policy watchers’ tongues wagging in Washington, D.C. With the announcement from Comcast and NBC Universal that they intended to merge operations, the Free Press and Consumer Federation of America released their own white paper analysis arguing the deal poses a major threat to competition that would harm the public interest.
Unprecedented in its combination of distribution and content, the merger must be blessed by several government regulators, the Federal Communications Commission (which is just now teeing up review of media ownership rules), the Federal Trade Commission as well as several international agencies.
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