COMMENTARY: Bell-Astral hinges on how it's counted

“OH, PEOPLE CAN COME UP with statistics to prove anything… 14% of people know that.” - Homer J. Simpson Released this week, the 240-page mound of data known as the CRTC Communications Monitoring Report was reduced to a pair of press releases this week, one which purported that Bell buying Astral was a very bad and scary thing, and the other that Bell buying Astral was a very good and normal thing. According to the Say No To Bell forces – the public relations effort put together by Quebecor, Cogeco and EastLink and co-ordinated by National Public Relations – the...