Posted on 09/07/2022 5:24:08 AM PDT by Twotone
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the Senate, has been raising questions about the bill, several senior congressional sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Two senior congressional aides with knowledge of the bill’s deliberations confirmed Kennedy’s apprehensions heading into a scheduled markup of the proposal in the Senate Judiciary Committee later this week. “Senator Kennedy, who is the lead Republican sponsor of the JCPA, has privately raised questions about the broadness of this legislation, and how it could help Big Media companies, harming conservatives,” one of the aides told Breitbart News.
Kennedy’s office would not deny these revelations of the senator’s concerns with the proposal on the record, and instead chose to reiterate the senator’s support for the bill and argued he achieved at least some additions to the legislation his team claims would help conservatives even though the flawed structure of the broader proposal remains as such — and as Breitbart News has reported, the amended version of the bill released by the office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) exacerbates the bill’s worst problems.
The JCPA, which has been repeatedly pushed by lobbyists for the nation’s largest and wealthiest media companies over the past two years, would create a cartel of news companies in the U.S., empowered to collectively bargain with Big Tech for special favors.
In essence, the bill is a bailout for the same corporate legacy media that has made an industry of smearing Republicans as extremists, bigots, and worse, pushing conspiracy theories like Russiagate while ignoring legitimate stories that harm their preferred party, like the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell.”
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Only a GOP moron would push a bill while the Dems have control.
I certainly don’t see how you can put your name on legislation knowing there are problems with it. I generally like Sen. Kennedy, but this is ridiculous.
Sen Kennedy's legislation would not just bail out, but would strengthen those that hate us and wish to destroy us.It makes zero sense.
If the fruit be poisoned then why push to wash it?
TOSS IT!
what can we do?
stop funding them
cut the cable tv
force cable companies to offer a la carte
Clue to the GOP.
If it smells, drop it and walk away.
Who advises these guys?
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