{"id":2981,"date":"2010-10-17T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2010-10-17T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:21:53","slug":"fox-cancels-the-future-of-all-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Fox Cancels The Future Of All Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a demonstration of precisely why giant media conglomerates must be regulated and broken up, Fox has escalated a contract dispute into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepress.net\/press-release\/2010\/10\/16\/free-press-blasts-fox-blocking-online-content-cablevision-dispute\" target=\"_blank\">obscene abuse of power<\/a>. Their action stems from faltering negotiations over fees paid to Fox by Cablevision, a New York area provider of cable TV service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Reports indicate that Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of News Corporation, is blocking Cablevision high-speed Internet customers from accessing Fox.com and Hulu content. Fox&#8217;s actions raise important questions about the future of the online video market and the public interest obligations of broadcasters.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, it is questionable that Fox would seek to punish Internet users in an attempt to coerce a cable TV operator into forking over twice as much in fees as they presently pay. The Internet users are not a part of this dispute, but because Fox has corporate tentacles that reach around numerous media platforms, they feel empowered to abuse their position. So what&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fox Stops Broadcasting to Hotels And Bars To Keep Viewers From Watching Disputed Programming.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Forbids Customers To Visit The Homes Of Friends And Watch Their Dish Network.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Blocks Access To Yankee Stadium By Cable Subscribers.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Erects Tower To interfere With Radio Broadcasting.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Disables Dialysis Machine Of Cable Customer Watching Glee In Hospital Room.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Releases Internet Virus To Attack Cable Viewers Of Fox Programs.<\/li>\n<li>Fox Hires Al Qaeda To Fly Planes Into Cablevision Headquarters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When companies control access to every pathway to media content the potential for this sort of abuse is too tempting for them to resist. Fox&#8217;s behavior is reprehensible. Cablevision&#8217;s Internet users have no part of the television dispute. The fact that Fox would deliberately seek to disrupt that service is a perfect example of why they must not be permitted to have that kind of tyrannical power. And that applies to Time Warner, Viacom, and Disney as well. It is also a foreboding preview of what can be expected from the pending Comcast\/NBC merger.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory on this concerns a demand by Fox that Cablevision pay almost twice as much for the same programming they presently provide. Cablevision says that the fees Fox is demanding are greater than those that Cablevision pays to all of their other local broadcasters combined. Furthermore, Cablevision has said that they would agree to comply with the findings of a third-party arbitrator, but Fox refuses to participate in such arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>The channels involved in the dispute include FOX 5, My9, FOX Business Network, and National Geographic Wild. Fox News is not a part of these negotiations. It would be interesting to see what Fox would say if Cablevision decided to cut off Fox News anyway. It would certainly benefit viewers who would be freed from additional exposure to the lies and propaganda that make up most of Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Some late reports indicate that Fox will be restoring Internet service to Cablevision&#8217;s customers, but that doesn&#8217;t excuse their first response, nor relieve the risk of future misbehavior. These monopolistic conglomerates must be broken up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a demonstration of precisely why giant media conglomerates must be regulated and broken up, Fox has escalated a contract dispute into an obscene abuse of power. Their action stems from faltering negotiations over fees paid to Fox by Cablevision, a New York area provider of cable TV service. &#8220;Reports indicate that Fox Broadcasting Company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-general","tag-fox-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-M5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2345,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2345","url_meta":{"origin":2981,"position":0},"title":"Fox News: Last In Online Ratings","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/8\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"For much of the last decade Fox News has dominated the Nielsen ratings for cable news networks. 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