Anonymous ID: bac881 May 17, 2020, 8:52 p.m. No.9220136   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9220019 [/Q]

>Bill Clinton_ 1996 Telecommunications Act

 

Bill Clinton’s telecom law: Twenty years later

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/268459-bill-clintons-telecom-law-twenty-years-later

 

[in part]

Among other things, the bill brought deregulation to the cable industry and lifted the national cap on radio station ownership. It also eased the rules that apply to broadcasters.

 

A number of technology groups will commemorate the law’s passage next week, with players from big-name technology companies participating.

 

On Monday, technology groups and companies are expected to mark the signing of the bill. INCOMPAS, which represents the so-called “competitive” communications companies and used to be called COMPTEL, will hold a policy summit on Wednesday that includes Colin Crowell, the vice president of global public policy at Twitter, and representatives from the FCC and 21st Century Fox. The group is also throwing a party in honor of the anniversary.

 

Some have argued that parts of the law had detrimental effects on the communications market. A 2005 report from public interest group Common Cause found that political forces blunted its impact.

 

“In many ways, the Telecom Act failed to serve the public and did not deliver on its promise of more competition, more diversity, lower prices, more jobs and a booming economy,” the group said. “Instead, the public got more media concentration, less diversity, and higher prices.”

Anonymous ID: bac881 May 17, 2020, 9:02 p.m. No.9220244   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0355 >>0397

>>9220019 [/Q]

>Bill Clinton_ 1996 Telecommunications Act

 

Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act

https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/

 

[in part]

“Before the ink was even dry on the 1996 Act,” wrote S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, in a 2009 report proposing a national broadband strategy, “the powerful media and telecommunications giants and their army of overpaid lobbyists went straight to work obstructing and undermining the competition the new law was intended to create.”

 

Media consolidation was already an extremely pressing concern long before 1996. In 1983, Ben Bagdikian published his groundbreaking book, The Media Monopoly, which revealed that just 50 corporations owned 90 percent of the media. That number gradually dwindled over the coming 13 years and was accelerated by the Telecommunications Act. This has led us to the aforementioned crisis where more than 90 percent of the media is owned by just six companies: Viacom, News Corporation, Comcast, CBS, Time Warner and Disney.

 

More troubling is that these filings come on the heels of a report from Politico that the Clinton Foundation has received donations, some of them very large, from most of all the major media companies directly: Viacom, News Corporation, Reuters, NBCUniversal, Newsmax, Time Warner, Mort Zuckerman (owner of US News &World Report and the New York Daily News), Comcast, AOL Huffington Post Media and Robert Allbritton (owner of Politico). George Stephanopoulos, one of ABC News’ most visible journalist and a former staffer for President Clinton, has also been under scrutiny for not disclosing a $75,000 donation to the foundation.

Anonymous ID: bac881 May 17, 2020, 9:12 p.m. No.9220344   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act

https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/

 

More than 90 percent of the media is owned by just six companies:

Viacom

News Corporation

Comcast

CBS

Time Warner

Disney.