Post : URGENT: Ted Cruz CAVES to Democrat Amy Klobuchar on Media Cartel Bill — Please Call Your Senators on THURSDAY Morning!
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Posted : September 22, 2022 at 2:58 am
Author : William
Categories : vaccine harm
ALERT: The last thing we need is MORE CARTELS!
Please call Senator Cruz and/or your own Senator tomorrow, tell them to OPPOSE this terrible bill!
This so-called "Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA)" bill could create a liberal monopoly on news, crushing conservative outlets.
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Exclusive — Ted Cruz Caves to Democrat Amy Klobuchar on Media Cartel Bill
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has caved to the Democrats on legislation that would allow media organizations to create formal cartels to negotiate with Big Tech companies, several congressional aides and others familiar with the process told Breitbart News on Wednesday.
If Cruz goes forward with his plans to back—and allow the senate to advance—the legislation, then he will immediately become one of the biggest enablers of the establishment media and Big Tech giants and he could seriously jeopardize his political future.
Cruz, who had previously jammed up a committee markup on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) a few weeks ago, has now decided to give Klobuchar what she wanted and allow the Democrat proposal to proceed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee to eventually be considered by the full U.S. Senate.
Several aides on both sides of the JCPA fight familiar with the matter told Breitbart News on Wednesday that Cruz caved to Klobuchar and has agreed to changes to language he offered in an amendment to allow the bill to advance. When questioned repeatedly about it on Wednesday, Cruz’s office did not deny these aides’ characterization.
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The office of Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who had previously undercut the broader bill to back Cruz’s amendment three weeks ago in committee, confirmed that Cruz caved to Klobuchar on record to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Proponents of the JCPA—like Kennedy, and now Cruz—have falsely claimed it would help conservatives fight back against Big Tech. The legislation does no such thing as, among the serious structural problems, it has included no favored nations clause contained in it, which means that a group of media companies could get together on their own and negotiate a sweetheart deal with a big tech company but that deal would not apply to every media company.
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FROM MARCH, 2021
Media companies bill could create a liberal monopoly on news, crushing conservative outlets
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The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would effectively give Fox News and the Wall Street Journal a monopoly on news that is not hard-left, which means that 'conservative' would be whatever the Murdoch family says it means.
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Fri Mar 26, 2021 - 1:30 pm EDT
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March 26, 2021 (AmericanThinker) — The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JPCA) is a bait-and-switch attempt that claims to help conservative news sources but would instead purge them from the marketplace of ideas. Congress should reject it for the freedom-killer it is.
JCPA would give media companies — broadcast and print — an exemption from federal antitrust laws, so they can operate in a coordinated fashion to negotiate prices that social media companies like Facebook would have to pay them to carry their content. It would ensure that these tech billionaires would have to direct some of their riches into content providers.
But that's a Big Boys' game, where the major players could decide whom to let into their club. Smaller outlets would be left out in the cold, and the market would suffer.
This is because almost all of the Big Boys are liberal. For print, there are the New York Times and the Washington Post. For video content providers, you have the networks, CNN, and MSNBC. The twin star performers owned by News Corp — Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journal — are some of the only ones to the right of the 50-yard line.
The bill's supporters say it would help small, conservative outlets like the one you're reading now. No chance. I talk almost daily with friends on Capitol Hill, and I heard from them the names of a couple of hard-charging right-wing outlets who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of this legislation. But then I talked with the CEO of one of those companies and found out that no one had approached him on this bill before it was rolled out. (For that matter, he opposes it.)
Aside from having done thousands of interviews over the past half-century, I used to be part owner of some radio stations and know how the media industry works. The reality is this: media companies prefer cartels and monopolies, just like many other businesses.
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