And the Internet's biggest player is Bill Gates, known in philanthropic circles as the wind beneath Planned Parenthood's wings. So if diversity of voices is are threatened, one would assume the commentators denouncing the approaching unanimity would be conservative. Yet in the frenzy of corporate liberal guilt surrounding coverage of the AOL merger, you couldn't find a single conservative or libertarian scholar of the media or antitrust law. On January 10, they invited two technology experts, and leftists James Ledbetter and Norman Solomon.
Brand is the great buzzword in sign space, if it was perceived as biased.
Despite all their talk of declining democracy, liberals don't care about diversity of voices. Allegiance to that principle would dictate that they denounce the increasingly strident liberal structure of America's top media corporations and the threat that poses to conservative voices. The liberal Web site Salon broke a story which should have the Hollywood left marching in the streets. If the networks had made this deal when Nancy Reagan was leading the War on Drugs, Hollywood would have exploded with fury. But this deal happened at a time the entertainment industry loves hanging out with Bill Clinton at state dinners and Hollywood fundraisers, so the liberal mantra of artistic freedom is taking a holiday.