Reply #17: True. The corporations that own the mainstream media

[ThomCat]

get excellent returns on their investments by supporting republicans.

Just look at the results at the FCC, changing rules to allow those same media corporations to consolidate, grow, and gobble up small competitors.

Look at the rubber-stamping of ever new purchase and merger, even as it reduces the choices and variety left in the media world and drives up prices.

Look at the overall trend, increasing costs while decreasing the overall access to real news in favor of infotainment and opinions, making it harder for people in the US to get access to information that the rest of the world can take for granted.

And now we are staring down the possibility of losing net neutrality, all so those same corporations can make more money, monopolize the internet, and choke off the free flow of information online too. Republicans, and the ConservaDems who feed from the same troughs, will be the ones who vote to allow corporations to end net neutrality, and it will be the most profitable vote those corporations ever bought and paid for.