U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather freakish way . After all , who can block Grassley classic like “ PantsBurnLegWood ” of2009and “ WH : ANSWER MY LETTER ” of2017 ? But the senator ’s tweets over the weekend were specially weird , even if you agreed with his central premise .
“ These cable caller are start to big like goggle so they can ignore their customers FNC has taken their heart off . For those of us threadbare of hearing the same story ten times we can mute and read . So now just turn to another channel NOT HISTORY CH , ” Grassleytweetedwith several grammatical and spelling errors .
These cable companies are getting to big like goggle so they can disregard their customers FNC has taken their ticker off . For those of us old-hat of listen the same story ten times we can mute and scan . So now just turn to another line NOT HISTORY CH
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— Chuck Grassley ( @ChuckGrassley)May 2 , 2021
presumptively , “ goggle ” is a reference to Google and not middle protection , while “ FNC ” in all likelihood have in mind Fox News Channel . And while Grassley is for certain right that cablegram companies have gotten too large , his entire career has allowed that to happen . Grassley , an tremendously powerful soul as one of just 100 U.S. senators , has sat back and watch as medium companies have consolidated since he was first elected in 1980 .
While Grassley has stressed that each Modern merger and attainment should be looked at closely by regulators , promising a “ robust ” critical review almost every sentence , he has n’t come out emphatically against the merger that have give Americans the current Big Five medium companies , including AT&T , Comcast , Disney , ViacomCBS , and the Fox Corporation .
And all of that is to say nothing of Grassley ’s unknown obsession with the History Channel not having enough history programing . The senator oftentimes squeeze about what ’s on television set , as we might await of a adult male who ’s 87 years previous and should ’ve go to sleep a long prison term ago . But his obsession with TV , match with his frequent spelling errors and flakey syntax make it clear he should n’t be in elect office anymore .
When Grassley was bear in 1933 , TV was largely a plaything of the ultra - rich in the U.S. There were just a handful of television system sets in the U.S. in 1933 , let in justhalf a dozen TVs in Los Angeles , and a disperse more in Grassley ’s home plate state of Iowa , thanks to experiments that were conducted at theUniversity of Iowa . The world is a very dissimilar place here in 2021 with many dissimilar challenges , and if Grassley is serious about separate up the swelled cable companies he should introduce a bill that propose to do just that .
If Grassley is n’t serious about antimonopoly enforcement or making natural law that would beef up the ability of regulators to actually do something to break up America ’s Big Five , he should get out of the way and maybe give someone young a chance . Like a sprightly 80 - twelvemonth - old .
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