The telecommunications act of 1996 basically allowed for media conglomerates and non-media companies to buy up and basically propagandize media orgs. Like for instance: Comcast buying NBC. It took us from > 500 nationwide media orgs to < 6 that control 95% of the media on the web or tv.
That's all on the "free market" and "unregulated capitalism" the right "loves" so much.
Maybe the answer is end that bill, split up all the media, and maybe have a max # of "users" per social media company so that they need to basically "spin" out other companies for the next 10 million users, and each block of 10 million users have their own group so that no groups have max control... seems like the equivalent of 500 media orgs with different agendas at least they have some differing opinions.
Now Sinclair Broadcast group basically sends the exact same word-for-word script to thousands of local tv stations, and we just accept it as truth.
Twitter and Facebook are the least of our problems... media is broken in America period, and that's because of lack of anti-trust against media conglomerates as well as repealing the fairness doctrine. Not sure what a good solution is, but twitter/fb/etc are small wheels. If there's no newsweek, fox, brietbart, cnbc, nbc, msnbc, cnn to post news stories there'd be no sharing of news period on these platforms, of course then htere's just no news online...
Ideally it'd be nice if media ads were overhauled to guarantee that media doesn't get blind-sided by special interests... like Humana pulling ads if they're too supportive of medicare for all, it'd be nice also if we ended lobbying in congress and enacted anti-corruption laws at every level of government to ensure money stays out of politics and the the U.S. government self-funded all elections and at an "equal" level. If I ran against Bernie Sanders, we'd get equal $$ and that's that, no donations etc.
At least then how far someone gets is more on merit, organization, and how well they can budget -- things that are admirable in an elected official. Ability to fundraise has no bearing on how you can govern because you don't hold fundraisers for social projects, the military, etc - you tax the people or print new cash.
That's all on the "free market" and "unregulated capitalism" the right "loves" so much.
Maybe the answer is end that bill, split up all the media, and maybe have a max # of "users" per social media company so that they need to basically "spin" out other companies for the next 10 million users, and each block of 10 million users have their own group so that no groups have max control... seems like the equivalent of 500 media orgs with different agendas at least they have some differing opinions.
Now Sinclair Broadcast group basically sends the exact same word-for-word script to thousands of local tv stations, and we just accept it as truth.
Twitter and Facebook are the least of our problems... media is broken in America period, and that's because of lack of anti-trust against media conglomerates as well as repealing the fairness doctrine. Not sure what a good solution is, but twitter/fb/etc are small wheels. If there's no newsweek, fox, brietbart, cnbc, nbc, msnbc, cnn to post news stories there'd be no sharing of news period on these platforms, of course then htere's just no news online...
Ideally it'd be nice if media ads were overhauled to guarantee that media doesn't get blind-sided by special interests... like Humana pulling ads if they're too supportive of medicare for all, it'd be nice also if we ended lobbying in congress and enacted anti-corruption laws at every level of government to ensure money stays out of politics and the the U.S. government self-funded all elections and at an "equal" level. If I ran against Bernie Sanders, we'd get equal $$ and that's that, no donations etc.
At least then how far someone gets is more on merit, organization, and how well they can budget -- things that are admirable in an elected official. Ability to fundraise has no bearing on how you can govern because you don't hold fundraisers for social projects, the military, etc - you tax the people or print new cash.