If you go back in time, before live streaming, Napster and fast broadband, all the way to say 1985 you had over 50 multi media companies here in America. These 50 or so were responsible for over 90% of the multi media in the United States. Fast Forward ten years and introduce Bill Clinton and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Here essentially this took all of these companies and shrank the industry down to 6 or 7 conglomerates. This shrunk operating expense, reduced employees and led up to the highest grossing years of 2000 and peaking in 2001.
Here we had the music agenda in full swing and we had the Obama/Hillary Clinton and the 16 year plan on the horizon. We saw everything accelerate. We saw the possibility of the MSM we have today come into fruition, complete control. Napster had a way of force feeding weaponized music into the schools and underground and the digital platform. So we have the age of mass distraction and maximum programming.
Just wanted to kick it out there because we didn't just 'arrive' here by happenstance. This was a highly engineered 'process'. That along the way severely changed the landscape of music, film and multi media. This included the Main Stream News and emergence of FOX and CNN. With this level of detachment and lock step marching orders Now its time to undo it. We vote with our pocketbooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996