I have a great suggestion:

We create a single company ... call it “media, inc.” and we put all the media resources in it.  Cable, content providers, the internet ... absolutely everything.  We appoint Rupert Murdoch as CEO and populate the board with all the media maniacs who are now destroying independent media in America.  Anyone who refuses to join the megacorp, say Amy Goodman and her DemocracyNow channel, are denied access to the public.  Then, we could all get the same news and turn America into one big, happy family.  No more arguments about politics or the environment.  No more concerns about the wars (“What wars?  I’ve heard nothing about any wars on my TV for months.  We pulled out of Afghanistan and Iran last year ... Glen Beck told me so.”)  Wouldn’t be so wonderful?  We could all live our lives as ignorant morons (oh wait ... we already do that) laughed at by the rest of the world.  But at least it would be America ... the exceptional idiots of the universe.

Wait a minute!  If Comcast can afford to buy 51% of NBC/Universal from GE, then their customer rates were really over-priced!!!  At least we know one thing that the de-regulation of the communication industry did little good for the general public.  It was always a given that industries involved in much needed public services and had monopolies created by extensive infra-structure had to be regulated otherwise the greed gene would take over.  Well, it looks like that is just what happened.  I live in a area where the power companies have been de-regulated and you should see my bill!!!  But what interests me is that when the electric cost increases so do the gas rates——why is that?——they’re two separate commodities and all natural gas is from the US not from foreign commerce.  It couldn’t be price-fixing or could it??!!