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NPR and everyone else, please stop lying to us. And please stop reading corporate press releases to us and calling them news. This morning, NPR took a stab at covering the proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger that was officially announced this weekend.
 
 
NPR is completely wrong. This has nothing to do with AT&T or DirecTV "surviving." They're both big, profitable companies, and if the industry is changing they can change to adapt to it. Which by the way, both are already doing. What this is REALLY about is monopoly. Just like the Comcast-Time Warner merger, and Sprint's plans to try to take over T-Mobil, this AT&T-DirecTV move is all about MONOPOLY.
 
These mergers and acquisitions are about corporations getting so large that they dominate an industry, and limit your choices to a very, very small number of companies - which then all suddenly start raising prices and increasing profits. This is about screwing the consumer. And this is all because in 1982 Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
 
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Screwed: What moms need to know about Obamacare...
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Give dying patients the right to try
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How Koch dominance came to be...
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Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
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Article: "The Austerity Agenda" by Paul Krugman.
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