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I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

The worst part, is this was highly visible with radio. Anyone with half a minute's attention span could see the consolidation there and then go "huh bet TV is next". Yet not a single peep about radio consolidation as a problem from any major dem. It's "almost" like sr. Dems are totally OK with this.

Well, I think, much like the security of the internet, there are some very aware individuals who highly understand the stakes, a bunch of people that have a light hold on the stakes, and a 80% group that just fail to understand and won't understand why they should care.

it's a loop, right? functional journalism would protect us from the erosion of functional journalism.

And while leadership should be in that 20% of individuals that at least get what the stakes are, even if they don't fully understand, they fall most likely into the the mid-80% where they go "oh hey, maybe that's not great" but completely fail at the understanding of repercussions.