Blogs

  • In the Belly of the Murdoch Beast

    Dave Saldana
    October 24, 2011

    I always feel a little better when I go home to Los Angeles. My hometown takes a lot of flak about its Tinseltown image and how “fake” the people are supposed to be. But I can assure you that the working folks of my hometown are as real as the 99-percenters anywhere else in the country.

    Last Friday, more than 100 of my fellow “real” Angelenos took their concerns about the corporate media and their power to corrupt our democracy right into the lap of one of their most notorious figures: News Corp. potentate Rupert Murdoch.

  • State AGs Add Nail to AT&T/T-Mobile Coffin

    Dave Saldana
    September 20, 2011

    It happened with little fanfare, but another nail was banged into the coffin of the unlamented AT&T/T-Mobile merger last week when attorneys general from seven states joined the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block the deal on antitrust grounds.

  • Justice Dept. Sees Through AT&T's Jobs 'Promise'

    Dave Saldana
    September 8, 2011

    The Department of Justice gave wireless customers an extremely valuable gift last week when it filed suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, a $39 billion boondoggle that would've made AT&T richer and more powerful at the expense of everybody else.

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