Schmuck Schumer Schemes With Big Tech & Liberal Media To Squash Conservative Voices

By Mark Gruber | Tuesday, 19 July 2022 05:15 AM
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Schmuck Schumer Schemes With Big Tech & Liberal Media To Squash Conservative Voices

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has held discussions with Microsoft regarding the Journalism Competition and Preservation act (JCPA). This bill would enable media companies to form a cartel, exempting them from antitrust law for the only purpose of colluding with Big Tech companies for advantages over their competitors.

Excluding any media outlet that does not have a “dedicated professional editorial staff,” the bill would enable the newly-formed national media cartel to pressure Big Tech companies to give more ad revenue to the likes of BuzzFeed and the New York Times, as well as favor them in search results and news feed algorithms.

The bill has been denounced from all points of the political spectrum and by independent antitrust and communications law experts who call it a gift to some of the wealthiest and most powerful media companies in the world.

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On the conservative side, Media Research Center VP and longtime journalist Dan Gainor told Senators earlier this year that the JCPA is a bailout for the same large media companies that are destroying local and independent media. Republican FCC commissioner Nathan Simington and President Trump’s top tech expert Adam Candeub denounced the bill.

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On the left, the progressive nonprofit Public Knowledge, established by far-left Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, is likewise opposed to the bill. In a message to its activists, Public Knowledge echoed the Media Research Center’s claiming that the JCPA favors the largest media companies — a rare moment of partisan agreement.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald testified against the bill in 2021, warning of collusion between America’s largest media companies.

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In a later hearing, former federal antitrust enforcer and Harvard law fellow Dr. Daniel Francis announced that he “cannot think of anything the country needs less, now or ever” than the national media cartel the JCPA would create.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading liberal nonprofit on internet policy in the U.S., concurred, stating the bill favors “media near-monopolies.”

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Despite this widespread opposition — from conservatives, progressives, liberals, and from independent specialists — the power of the media lobby is still strong, and the JCPA declines to die.

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Despite the media regularly branding their voters' racists, insurrectionists, extremists, conspiracy theorists, and all manner of similar smears, some Republican Senators have signed onto the bill, even though it represents a bailout for the likes of the Washington Post and the New York Times.

In the Senate, these Republicans are Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

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