How do we overcome the current media landscape?

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14. Remove ratings from news divisions

Remove ratings from news divisions. Re-institute both the Fairness Doctrine and the Personal Attack rule. Prevent the cartel-like structure of media companies (23 companies owning 95% of all 25,000 major print/electronic media outlets in US). Ratings- and popularity-based news isn't news, it's simply more branding.

(and to any lurking idiots: read Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC for the context (and continuing results of consolidation) you lack).

Ben Bagdikian wrote The Media Monopoly in 1982 or '83. His prescience has been noted, his prophecies have come to pass, and he he keeps plugging away at the half-witted, two-sentence structure answer always given as to why the Fairness Doctrine cannot work anymore. Because it does work. It works in western democracies with saturated markets in the form of those county's own regulations.