Charles Hobbs wrote:
But even if the Supreme Court did agree to that....perhaps the best result
of such a ruling would be to force a breakup of the existing broadcast
companies, Ma Bell style....

....which would never happen, as long as there is more than one broadcast
company out there. Ma Bell was one company, and that was also a good
while ago. The government wouldn't even split up Microsoft, for as
big and as imposing a behemoth as they are.

If, say, Viacom and Clear Channel were to merge (!), then maybe you'd
be able to argue it's a monopoly. So long as the two of those remain
independent competitors, not a chance.

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros -at- mit dot edu