Again, thanks, Dave….

 Just as the pundits have predicted for months now, Trump’s FCC has rescinded a two decade-old rule that prohibited any single “station group” (a business that owns TV and radio stations) from owning more TV stations than what would give them more than 39 percent of the market share in any one local TV market.  The idea was to prevent the “monopolization” of TV broadcasting in any single market.

 

Well, Project 2025 dictates that all the “liberals” and “cosmopolitans” need to be driven out of the TV broadcasting business – because their “subversive tastes” are “polluting the airwaves” with “unwholesome” and “un-American” programming (like Colbert, Kimmel and 60 Minutes).  And the best way to do this in late-stage capitalism is to let the business oligarchs wheel and deal amongst themselves until a handful of them (who are favored by the Dear Leader, like the Ellisons, Murdochs and Musk) control virtually all of the “public” airwaves – so they can enforce the far-right, Christo-fascist “Party Line” when it comes to programming and editorial content.

 

That’s the model that worked for Putin.  Not to mention also for Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey (“Turkiye”) too.  It’s a model that’s been studied and dissected for years in minute detail by the entire CPAC crowd – and they’re itching to put into practice here in The Land of the Free.

 

Gutting this FCC restriction on maximum market share was a very necessary step in this nakedly open campaign to turn all of American broadcast TV (especially the local news coverage - which is broadcast TV’s major money-maker) into Fox “News” combined with The 700 Club.