These facts are all the proof needed that the Legislative and Judicial branches of our Country have been taken over by a silent coup d'état. The only reason why the American Public aren't up in arms is because the coup plotters have succeeded in their primary mission to infiltrate and control the means of mass communication, the MSM. The successful decades-long roll out Operation Mockingbird made this possible. The only exception is our small pocket of resistance here along with a handful of social and mainstream media patriots. Accordingly, it is paramount that we red-pill friends, family and open-minded normies about the gradual consolidation of ALL media by the six (6) mega-corporations over the last 2 - 3 decades. Pushing this meme along with relating the "boiling frog" analogy or something similar is critically important.
"The [Telecommunications Act of 1996] dramatically reduced important Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on cross ownership, and allowed giant corporations to buy up thousands of media outlets across the country, increasing their monopoly on the flow of information in the United States and around the world…..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."….
https://billmoyers.com/story/twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-has-not-been-good-for-our-democracy/