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...owns it all. The print magazines. The news channels. The record labels. The movie studios. The WB network. The Time Warner cable lines, which they've promised the FTC they'll share with the other children. Ted Turner. Madonna. Bugs Bunny. James Earl Jones's voice...
...marriage of such vast arrays of content and distribution, like the old Standard Oil, worried the FTC for a long, long time until they gave up. Sometimes it tugs at the consciences of us content providers (formerly known as journalists). The use in news writing of "a parent company of this network/magazine/publication" was already widespread - this merger makes it even more so. Not to mention that there's one less behemoth out there I can make fun of without fearing for my company stock...
...Suspicious enough to pay top dollar - many, many billions - for my services. And it's nice to be wanted. It's nice to know that my news-themed content just got the inside track (don't tell the FTC I said that) to some 25 million paying subscribers. And it's nice to think that my stock in this new new-media behemoth could one day make me a man of above-average wealth - as soon the next speculative bubble hits NASDAQ. (I have one word for you: broadband...
...such insidious forces as "The Fifth Element." More than the other industries, movie studios have taken the criticism with heads bowed in shame, with either stony silence (Universal) or ready conciliation (Disney). Shame is certainly in order for some marketing practices, but entertainment companies could easily argue with the FTC's occasionally alarmist tone and scattered lapses in logic. They could also respond by asking why Gore and Lieberman are concentrating on guns in movies while falling silent on the issue of gun control. Or why Congress has commited itself to video game violence while giving trade benefits to China...
...every time Madonna makes a movie: What are they thinking? For the answer, let's turn to the plot of "America's Sweethearts," in which fictional filmmakers hide the harsh truth in order to push their product. The overwhelmingly liberal denizens of Hollywood realize that the FTC report on marketing violence has provided the Democrats a springboard for some good old-fashioned family-values campaigning. Standing on a family-values platform is like casting Richard Gere in a movie. It doesn't guarantee a hit, but it's a decent bet, and even the most hotheaded limousine liberal will...