Key Points
- Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to Democrat leaders, agreeing to allow the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
- The JCPA has no connection to the defense bill, but Democrats want to attach it to the defense bill to push it through.
- It’s easy to see why the JCPA is so important to Democrats. It would transfer money from Silicon to corporate legacy media, and the old-line media companies also would be able to form a cartel, immune from antitrust law, to negotiate with Big Tech companies on the “terms and conditions” for carrying their content.
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