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Takket

(23,325 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:00 AM Sep 25

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Yes Senator Murphy! Yes! A thousand times this!!! [View all]

Murphy: "The second remedy is for the Dem Party to make clear that if you give us power, we're gonna break up these media monopolies... if we want to be credible as a critic of Trump's slide to totalitarianism, we have to explain how we're gonna put local communities back in charge of their news."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-25T13:22:47.085Z

We need to BREAK UP and STOP the consolidation of the media!!! Just like we did with the phone company decades ago!!!

It is BAD for the country to have only a few entities deciding what we get to hear, and deciding how much we get to pay for it.

BREAK THEM UP!!!

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Yes Senator Murphy! Yes! A thousand times this!!! [View all] Takket Sep 25 OP

Who was it who signed the Telecommunications Act? gab13by13 Sep 25 #1

Post removed Post removed Sep 25 #3

Billy boy John Coktosten Sep 25 #4

Bravo, but this begs a very important question for Senator Murphy: Fiendish Thingy Sep 25 #2

monopolies tfury653 Sep 25 #5

and the result was..... lastlib Sep 25 #13

You can start by returning to exempting the news programs from having to survive by ratings. OldBaldy1701E Sep 25 #6

Excellent point. calimary Sep 25 #7

I don't know it ever worked that way. When did that change? Takket Sep 25 #9

The late seventies to early eighties. OldBaldy1701E Sep 26 #28

When have news shows ever relied on ratings to survive? SickOfTheOnePct Sep 25 #11

Well, first we have to find a defiinition of "news shows" progressoid Sep 25 #17

Ah got it, thanks SickOfTheOnePct Sep 25 #19

They rely on advertising to survive Captain Zero Sep 26 #26

They don't, really. OldBaldy1701E Sep 26 #29

Sure, a "public service" managed by that great "public servant".... reACTIONary Sep 25 #15

Yup. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Sep 26 #30

Will never kacekwl Sep 25 #8

Yes. But let's generalize the advice. Bluetus Sep 25 #10

break up maliaSmith Sep 25 #12

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt Ping Tung Sep 25 #14

I doubt many MAGAs even know who he is. progressoid Sep 25 #18

First st3p is expanding the USSC to 13 Warpy Sep 25 #16

THIS!!! calimary Sep 25 #24

AND BIG ,MEDIA WILL DESTROY DEMS JUST AS THEY DID DEAN. pansypoo53219 Sep 25 #20

I think Chris Murphy is one of the best communicators the Dem party has. yellow dahlia Sep 25 #21

The breakup of the original "Ma Bell", American Telephone & Telegraph, into the Baby Bells dobleremolque Sep 25 #22

Laughable Captain Obvious .... Too little way too late. I remember the race for media outlets live love laugh Sep 25 #23

Only problem is Diraven Sep 26 #25

The Telecommunications Act killed progressive/liberal/non-conservative radio. no_hypocrisy Sep 26 #27