to enforce them; not to mention a "fairness doctrine" when it comes to media coverage. Oh, wait,

That is to boycott. Do not give them permission to gaslight you.

And it's not a problem at all.

I got rid of the tv stations when Keith olbermann was fired. I knew the fix was in. We have tv’s but they are just dumb boxes to watch movies.

I say bring them back with the wealth tax.

It makes them trillions.

Thanks for sharing this, Passages. ❤️

An AOC or Mamdani type for Vermont.

She's fresh and fierce. In her first term she's already made good trouble.

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I don't think it will ever come to pass. Oracle isn't doing that well and some banks have already cut off access to financing. They are deeply entrenched in the Al stuff and very exposed.

Al is hanging by a thread and when it goes Oracle will go with it.

... USED to be illegal!
As was Big Pharma advertising directly to consumers. Wanna know part of the reason drug prices are so high, apart from blind, slavering greed? Look at their advertising budgets!
There USED to be limits on how many stations in a given market area one company could own. No more.
There USED to be limits on companies owning all their suppliers – vertical integration was their euphemism for it.
Monopolizing anything was against the law! Tell that to Weasel Walmart, Bozo Bezos; look at how many supermarket chains are owned by Albertsons, for instance (An estimated 2,305 stores divided by at least 20 chains!)... and the list goes on.

Excuse me; I just felt my blood pressure go through the roof.

We have a steep hill to climb to get back on track.

... will be laughing his ass off for a looong time.

What, exactly, they saw in that botoxed boob - who can say.

Toxic Masculinity.
And the Corruption that makes it possible and keeps it front-and-center.
The Heritage Foundation… Making Corruption Great Again for more than a hundred years.

America needs to start making rules about amassing so much power.

Giving too much power to the president in handling Tik Tok. I would've rather had the Chinese own it than Trump acolytes.

Like the one being filed by the California AG?

But I commend Bernie for bringing it up.

problem solved.

👍👍👍👍 Bernie!

Fuck them.

That’s an incredible amount of content control

One aspect of concentrated media control is their ability to deceive by omission.

Imho, one of the gravest acts of deceit.

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which repealed restrictions on the consolidation of media ownership? Before that Act, we had thousands or more independently-owned news outlets.

Moreover, even if antitrust law were being appropriately enforced, it is insufficient to protect us from harms due to media consolidation because it would require proof that the lack of competition among outlets caused measurable economic losses to consumers, which can be nearly impossible to prove when the "product" is information rather than goods or services. Even if you could show that, e.g., subscription prices for news services were higher than they might otherwise have been, the difference is probably not big enough to compensate you for the real harms done, which are informational and moral – and how do you measure those in dollars?

(E.g., could you prove an exact amount of economic loss that you've personally suffered due to, say, the MSM's failure to adequately cover the arrest and conviction of four black activist leaders for "conspiring to sow political discord" – allegedly at the behest of Russia, even though the their supposedly illegal behavior consisted in nothing more than the same kinds of activism for black equity and reparations that they'd been fighting for for the previous 50 years? {see https://www.courthousenews.com/black-rights-activists-convicted-of-conspiracy-not-guilty-of-acting-as-russian-agents/ })

Imho, we need to restore the restrictions on media consolidation that we once enjoyed, AND we need a body of antitrust law of information, as well as the one we have for $.

We have such a burden of issues, yet we have many good politicians present and future who want to take on these very serious problems that speak to a functioning democracy.