1 Apr 2021Washington, DC
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday slammed a bill from Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) that would empower establishment media organizations and help them destroy competition under the guise of appearing tough on Silicon Valley tech giants.
The bill, called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), would create a special legal exemption for media companies to allow them to band together in a way that would otherwise be illegal under antitrust law to collectively bargain with big tech companies. Ostensibly, per backers of the legislation, this exemption would empower media companies against big tech companies, but deep concerns that Breitbart News has documented have been exposed with the system it would create that essentially allows the creation of establishment media cartels that would hurt new media companies.
(Photo : Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Republican Senate Candidate Jodi Ernst Campaigns Throughout Iowa
NEWTON, IA - NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, Gov. Terry Brandstad, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst, GOP U.S. House candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks, State Auditor candidate Mary Mosiman and Iowa House candidate Crystal Bruntz address supporters at the Newton Manufacturing Company November 3, 2014 in Newton, Iowa. According to the polls, Ernst is in a neck-and-neck race with her opponent, Democratic candidate Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), and the election in Iowa could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Last November, Iowa Democrat Rita Hart was beaten by Republican challenger Mariannette Miller-Meeks by only six votes in Iowa s 2nd Congressional District election. Thursday, April 1, Hart finally conceded defeat after attempting to reverse the election outcome.
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