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Side of the market, it will be almost entirely comcast with a few other people way down the list, they're going to take your home internet connections, your wire line service, the phone companies are saying okay, we're going to take the mobile market and we like it if there were fewer than four of us, we've tried that, but the big two will be dominant and all of a sudden as a consumer you have very few choices and if they sdecide to start discriminating, blocking websites you don't have anywhere else to turn i think that's the real danger here and the one thing in all the consumer benefits tha...

Of customer service. >> they have nobody to switch to? >> they're the only game in town. if you want high-speed internet in most of the country your only choice is the local cable company and for more and more americans and maybe a lot more, that company is comcast. now that doesn't mean that, you know, people want to give up the internet or don't want to be able to watch shows like this, they absolutely do, but it does mean that consumers don't have a lot of freedom. they don't have a lot of choice. if they're unhappy with a company they have nowhere else to turn. >> this media war can feel s...

Entertainment channels. >> i think there's real concerns for people with comcast having this much control. they do own and operate one of the biggest news operations there is, nbc. and all of the nbc cable channels as well as dozens and dozens of local television stations and there's a lot of incentive for comcast if they could get away with it to give a leg up for their own content and services. that's true on the news side, that's true on the entertainment side. >> now comcast, we asked them to come on this week, they declined. i know what they would say here, they would say we haven't done ...

Dangerous. why do you say that? >> shocked and appalled is absolutely right, brian. i think this deal, if it goes through, would give comcast way too much power over what we watch watch, see, hear, read and download every day. this would make comcast a gatekeeper basically over all our forms of media and communication, giving them a lot of power to dictate the terms of the business, to decide what goes on the internet and what doesn't, certainly what goes on your cable system and what doesn't and i think that's too much power in the hands of one company that if this deal goes through would str...

Level. so nationally, yes, maybe. they said the bans are lifted and crisis over. well, crisis continues. >> sometimes local reporters hate it when national reporters bigfoot onto their turf but i feel like in this case what i'm hearing from you is come on by, please come back, there's a big story to cover. >> well, and i think we feel like we are still going through this crisis, and i feel like it has been kind of portrayed like, okay, the crisis is over. and we're moving in that direction. you know, hopefully our water supply is getting safer. they're now starting to do in-home testing and i ...