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Takket

(23,260 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2025, 11:00 AM Thursday

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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 Thursday OP

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

Post removed Post removed Thursday #3

Billy boy John Coktosten Thursday #4

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

monopolies tfury653 Thursday #5

and the result was..... lastlib Thursday #13

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

Excellent point. calimary Thursday #7

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

The late seventies to early eighties. OldBaldy1701E Friday #28

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

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

Ah got it, thanks SickOfTheOnePct Thursday #19

They rely on advertising to survive Captain Zero Friday #26

They don't, really. OldBaldy1701E Friday #29

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

Yup. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Friday #30

Will never kacekwl Thursday #8

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

break up maliaSmith Thursday #12

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

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

First st3p is expanding the USSC to 13 Warpy Thursday #16

THIS!!! calimary Thursday #24

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

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

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

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

Only problem is Diraven Friday #25

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