Merger

Glad to see that the Sirius-XM merger got approval. The companies' competitors in the terrestrial radio industry had been making the self-refuting argument that a merged entity would face no competition on the theory, I guess, that satellite radio is a hermetically sealed market totally unaffected by the rest of the broadcasting and music industries.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/03/merger/43973/