{"id":318165,"date":"2010-02-12T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011060065_nbccomcastmerger.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:48:07","slug":"nbccomcast-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/318165","title":{"rendered":"NBC\/Comcast merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mix of production and distribution hurts news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is sad that the only outwardly opposing voice to the merger of NBC Universal and Comcast is former comic and current senator from Minnesota, Al Franken [\u201cCongress should nix Comcast\/NBC merger,\u201d editorial, Opinion, Feb. 10]. While he holds little sway with Congress \u2014 being so new \u2014 Franken\u2019s message should resonate with all of us: Large media conglomerates that merge with other same-sized moguls should cause us deep concern.<\/p>\n<p>To have such a controlling interest in producing news and entertainment provides the opportunity to slant how the news is covered and reported. All the promises to remain fair and unbiased by those controlling interests is about as worthless as bankers\u2019 promises to do no harm to the nation\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The power to do ill will be there if the merger of NBC and Comcast is allowed \u2014 and whether it\u2019s done remains to be seen. But giving the owners the power to merge is akin to giving the Taliban controlling interest in Congress.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Bill Wippel, Normandy Park<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mix of production and distribution hurts news It is sad that the only outwardly opposing voice to the merger of NBC Universal and Comcast is former comic and current senator from Minnesota, Al Franken [\u201cCongress should nix Comcast\/NBC merger,\u201d editorial, Opinion, Feb. 10]. While he holds little sway with Congress \u2014 being so new \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}