Conservatives Launch Ad Campaign Against Comcast/Time-Warner Merger
The Comcast Corp. logo is seen as Brian Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., right, speaks during a news conference at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) Cable Show in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe proposed merger between Comcast and Time-Warner is not going smoothly. The FCC has slow-walked the deal when it didn't need to. Regulators are still fishing for stories about the relationship between streaming services and ISPs, which would be affected by the merger. And the would-be merger has been targeted for months by the left, most prominently by a re-elected Minnesota Senator Al Franken.
Now, it's going to be targeted by the right. Conservative War Chest, a PAC that specializes in 120-second storytelling ads, is arranging a buy in (so far) five presidential swing states–Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It tells a tale of institutional media bias, warning voters that unless they contact their leaders, a merger's going to happen that will calcify all their problems with the media.