Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
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| Re: Shocking...well maybe not, after all it is the gov't said by DotMac4  :It's bad if Comcast owns 30% market share but good for News Corp to buy up everything. Uh, okay Martin. Domination of the marketplace by any company or small group of companies is bad and anyone seeing current media consolidation can see that even under current rules giant media companies are having no trouble swallowing up the marketplace. I liked the distinction someone else already made between market presense in a particular area and market presense of available areas. Also, market share, market availability, market presense, market control ... all somewhat different. For instance, if somebody has 95% market share even though they only control 2% of the market (e.g., they only have 1 of 50 local radio stations that any house can receive but 95% of the people only want to listen to that 1 station), then they ought to be able to continue to do a good job. It's when their market *control* gets too big (e.g., they have 49 of 50 local radio stations, or 2 of 3, or whatever) that things need to be fixed by the bullies (I mean the gubt). |
