Dieter Bohn In the age of vertical integration, Fox is worth $65 billion

Comcast just put in a $65 billion bid for 21st Century Fox, which, according to my math, is more money than the $52.4 billion Disney is offering.

As you may be aware, Comcast owns NBCUniversal, which has invested in Vox Media, which is The Verge's parent company. So, obviously, I'm a little conflicted here. If Disney buys Fox, it can reunite X-Men with the rest of the Marvel universe. If Comcast buys Fox, I believe the deal will be structured in such a way that I and my colleages at The Verge will basically become X-Men. My mutation is a perverse desire to see content and content-delivery companies vertically integrate until they become bloated and diseased and implode under their own weight.