Media activists, with major union backing, are preparing an all-out assault on the Adelphia deal, where Comcast and Time Warner plan to divvy up the spoils of their $17.6 billion purchase of the troubled operator. Leading the charge are the Center for Digital Democracy, Common Cause and Free Press, which banded together to block the FCC's deregulatory media ownership changes in 2003. Common Cause was scheduled to host an organizational conference call Friday, April 29 to brainstorm strategies for the 12 months that the government's review of the Adelphia deal is expected to take.
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