Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) has remained silent on leftist calls to block the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a bill that progressives contend would be a boon to media conglomerates and harm independent news outlets.
Leftists have been urging Ossoff and other senators to oppose the JCPA as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has moved to include the bill in the National Defense Authorization Act . The bill would create a media cartel, which would allow its members to negotiate with big tech.
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association , which represents the interests of the black press,that many black- and minority-owned news outlets are independently operated and that the JCPA would “line the pockets of massive media conglomerates and hedge funds, and lead to the proliferation of harmful misinformation.”
The leader of the NNPA wrote that hedge funds and media “behemoths” have been buying up small, independent news outlets left and right. He has contended that the bill would only benefit large media conglomerates:
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