The Republicans need to threaten the MSM to quit being so incredibly biased and partisan.
The only effective threat the Republicans can make to the media is to restore the FCC’s Broadcast Ownership Rules (1975).
“FCC rules banned cross-ownership by a single entity of a daily newspaper and television or radio broadcast station operating in the same local market.”
However, congress could update and expand on this to include the Internet, book and magazine publishing, movies and theaters, etc. Importantly, they could do so only if the entity owned a broadcast system, so was under the jurisdiction of the FCC. They should especially include network providers.
In effect, this would bust up the “big six” media companies in the US: NBCUniversal (Comcast /GE), The Walt Disney Company, News Corporation, Time Warner, Viacom, and CBS Corporation.
They could broadcast anything they wanted to say under FCC jurisdiction, but they could do monopolize all media, as they do today.
This goes beyond politics, because these media companies are effectively stifling free speech in all things, wiping out independent book, newspaper and magazine publishers, which are replaced with generic crap and computer generated news. Books that are just mulch, containing little that is original or intelligent.
Pick up most newspapers in the US today, and you will read almost identical stories put out by the wire services. Sterile, useless things.
I really think the marketplace is starting to take care of the established and biased media for us.
Most major newspapers are going out of business. The networks are losing viewers by the millions each year. Most people under the age of 25 have no idea what “Time” and “Newsweek” are.
What I would like to see changed is we do need another conservative cable network to compete with Fox. Someone has to step up and invest the money there.