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Big Brother Is Holding Conservative Media Back

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/13/2025 5:39:38 AM

Conservatives spend a lot of time debating how to counter the power of the liberal media. Some say build new platforms. Others say to fight bias on the ones that already exist. But there is one simple step that almost everyone on the Right should agree on: stop letting Washington handicap conservative broadcasters. A single outdated FCC TV ownership cap, dating back to the 1940s, is doing just that, limiting TV station groups to reaching no more than 39 percent of U.S. television households. That number was invented in a different era, when most people had only a few channels and no internet or streaming.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 12/13/2025 9:41:22 AM (No. 2040654)
Left over from the socialist Franklin D Roosevelt era.
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