Posted on 01/27/2019 2:32:29 PM PST by Libloather
(CNN) - Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become one of Washington's most prolific social media users, but this weekend the New York freshman said Silicon Valley companies had too much power and that "the current monopoly trend is societally and economically unsustainable."
Ocasio-Cortez's comments came in the aftermath of layoffs at a number of number of news organizations, including BuzzFeed and HuffPost.
"The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies & concentration of ownership," she tweeted on Saturday, adding: "The fact of the matter is the current monopoly trend is societally & economically unsustainable. We can't simply accept the cliché that 'journalism is dying.' Journalism will only die if we choose not to fight for it - and if journalism dies, our democracy will, too."
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How many things are we supposed to fight for?
She’s simply mouthing a Democrat talking point that has been prominent in their radar screen with all those media layoffs announced last week.
IMO, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has no brain cells functioning. Whose hand is up her rear? Follow the money.
Uh huh. This “expert” has been office 5 minutes and all of a sudden she’s an expert on everything under the sun.
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Um, dude, she has been like inaugurated and stuff like you know? Once that happens it means you know like everything and stuff.
Sounds like AOC’s upset that HuffPost just laid off dozens of her cheerleaders in the “opinion section”. I guess she thinks they should be taxpayer supported
Journalism killed itself
Don’t like the monopoly of tech??? List them as publishers then. Congress can remove the special protections granted earlier
You’ve figured out what the idiots who can’t get past her looks or name-calling haven’t. She represents the views of a sizable fraction of the population just as Trump did/does.
Just watch what happens.
Go mix me a drink Ringworm.
This from someone who’s horizon was the end of a bar.
From cocktail waitress to America’s new female Lord and Savior. Man this country really has gone into the toilet if Cortez is the best we can do.
Sorry. No ice.
The ice in Arctica is already getting too small
LOLOL
After what they tried to do to Kavanaugh and his family, why would any decent person with a family and a decent job in the private sector want to get involved in politics?
That’s exactly what the Left’s goal was, drive out the good people.
And now, this is what’s left.
From cocktail waitress to America’s new, all knowing female Lord and Savior. The country has been dumbed down so badly that Cortez is now considered the one who holds all knowledge with Elder Nathan on the Tom Toms. Man this country really has gone into the toilet if Cortez is the best we can do.
A few thousand h1b visas and they wont care what is coming out of your mouth. Its all just wwe politics. Like sending Mexico n central America 10 billion additional taxpayer dollars and saying shut down the government for 5.7 billion
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