Pro-Trump-Milliardäre übernehmen US-Medien. Kimmel und Colbert sind vielleicht nur der Anfang.

>After Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934, creating the FCC, the commission enacted strict limits on how many broadcast stations (both TV and radio) a person or company could own. In 1953, for example, the FCC established the “rule of sevens,” where no one could own more than seven AM, seven FM and seven TV stations, nor could those stations reach more than 25% of Americans.

>But the deregulatory fever that gripped lawmakers beginning in the 1970s, and was supercharged during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, came for media ownership as well. In 1985, 7-7-7 became 12-12-12. The 1996 Telecommunications Act — passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton — removed the caps on radio station ownership entirely and increased the TV ownership cap to 35% of households. More broadly, it confirmed the end of the New Deal view that media consolidation should be restricted.

>“When the government has allowed for decades of consolidation of media and technology companies,” says Gigi Sohn, former nominee to the FCC during the Biden administration, “it becomes a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control because there are just fewer entities to pressure.”

>If these moves come to fruition, pro-Trump (or at least Trump-friendly) billionaires will control TikTok, X, Facebook, CBS, CNN, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

One reason I like this piece is that it’s doing what 99% of stories fail to do: It is not only reporting on the news of that day, but it is telling the long-term story of authoritarian media takeover.

No may to it. They *are* the start.

I’m willing to bet that the good news is these networks will be belly-up within a generation, maybe even a decade. I’m a younger millenial and nobody I know actually consumes legacy media on their own, I only get tidbits from new media influencers and podcasters or Reddit.

I certainly don’t pay to keep media afloat. Especially with all of the boycotts recently…

Divest. Check your 401Ks for Disney, Paramount, Fox Corp, etc.

Pay attention.

Fascists take over the media. If they control messaging, they control you.

Trump doesn’t read many things, but he does read Hitler. His favorite author.

Certain death for media.

Most of mainstream media is right leaning already and has been for a while. CNN should have rebranded as Conservative News Network a long time ago, even though the right keeps calling them liberal.

Time to break up monopolies. Then have the FCC bring back The Fairness Doctrine.

Release the Epstein Files!

They are completely restructuring the entire country

Hey, America- let’s tell them to go fuck themselves, in the most financially punishing way possible.

I know it is exactly the same, but TKO/UFC/WWE may as well be a Trump mouthpiece at this point too.

It looks like Trump has taken cues from fraand Modi even while they make fun of his caste

Is media is suking anyways – just turn it off

Pro Trump billionaires are taking over everything. It’s called Project 2025.   We were telling everybody about this since before the election but nobody believed us. Now it’s too late to stop it.

I encourage everyone in this to read up on Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, and the investment firm Andreessen-Horowitz.

That VC firm is the vessel through which conservative billionaires are striking. They should be public enemy #1 to any and all Americans.

They do so with the blessing of Peter Thiel. And they are laundering money through Coinbase/Brian Armstrong/Cryptocurrency.

Then we just stop watching their channels. Let those billionaires become millionaires.

We need to start accusing Sinclair of broadcasting too much woke stuff and turn the simpletons against them. MAGA has proven time after time that they can be easily stirred into a fervor over nothing and its time we employ this powerful weapon to our advantage instead of theirs.

What happens once America becomes a full dictatorship? Can it even be saved?

There needs to be like a „Radio Free America“ to help people in the underground find security from these people.

Remember when people were concerned about 95% of the media being controlled by a handful of corporations?

This is why.

TV news.
Billboards.
Magazines.
Newspapers.
Bus station ads.
Internet banner ads.
TV shows.
Movies.

Under control.

At that point no one cares about the media because no one trusts it.

All the pro Trump billionaires need to be looking at the billionaires and millionaires in Russia when they are thinking (short term )they’re doing something in their self interest.

What the fuck is this headline? „May just be the start“? They are the fucking start. I won’t be surprised when they axe Seth Meyers. I’ll be really angry and sad. But you know they’re working on some bullshit reason to get rid of more late night shows.

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.