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Satellite Radio Draws Support from Hinterlands

The Wall Street Journal has an odd (as in why?) little piece on how satellite radio sweeties XM and Sirius are pulling support for their merger from the oddest places. Their Exhibit A is Women Involved in Farm Economics, which apparently accepted a invitation from an XM lobbyist to start stumping for the deal. The […]

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The Wall Street Journal has an odd (as in why?) little piece on how satellite radio sweeties XM and Sirius are pulling support for their merger from the oddest places. Their Exhibit A is Women Involved in Farm Economics, which apparently accepted a invitation from an XM lobbyist to start stumping for the deal.

The group's president, Pam Potthoff, says many rural families have come to rely on satellite radio. She also offers this legal reasoning:

Look at our meatpacking plants. The big three merge and are taking over more and more, and no one stops that. It seems we have different standards for different industries.

The XM-Sirius Farm Team [WSJ]