Friday, June 28, 2019

Twilight of the Fake News Media




Mark Levin's new book raises important questions about the structure of the current news media.  The television stations were granted monopolies in the 1930s, and political support for the Democratic Party was an illegal precondition.  As well, the cable firms have been granted local monopolies, which are illegal because the firms are partisan in the information that they carry. The time has come to investigate the illegal use of public subsidy for partisan purposes and to use the anti-trust laws to balance the electronic news system.   Recent hearings in the Senate suggest that similar steps may need to be taken by tech firms like Google that use publicly subsidized infrastructure and air waves.

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