Media consolidation killed this country

[Horse with no Name]

How do we fix it?

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act

>>>snip
Twenty years later the devastating impact of the legislation is undeniable: About 90 percent of the country's major media companies are owned by six corporations. Bill Clinton's legacy in empowering the consolidation of corporate media is right up there with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and welfare reform, as being among the most tragic and destructive policies of his administration.

[RKP5637]

1. K&R!!! n/t

[onecaliberal]

2. Blow it into a million bits. "When they own the information they can bend it all they want"

[guillaumeb]

3. Promote and support alternative media.

In no particular order:
The Nation
Z Magazine
The Progressive
In These Times
Socialist Worker
Common Cause
Progressive radio stations and podcasts
Du
and there are probably many others that I have missed.

[stillcool]

4. Everything Consolidation...

No regulation, no competition, no taxes, and law by rule.