The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has already treated the rule as more of a suggestion. In March, the Carr FCC granted a waiver allowing Nexstar Media Group to buy Tegna in a deal that let it reach over half of TV households. The Carr FCC argued that Congress gave it authority to modify or waive the rule.
Carr now plans to repeal the 39 percent limit and replace it with a “case-by-case review” of each proposed merger, the chairman announced today in an op-ed published on Breitbart. The change would make it easier for the FCC to pick and choose which station groups get to surpass the limit. Under Carr, this would likely benefit news companies that provide favorable coverage for President Trump.
It’s not a country anymore, and it’s important that people figure that out.
I mean, the definition of a “country” doesn’t really have a minimum or maximum level of corruption needed to be called one or anything like that so that’s a bit silly.
Unless you mean the US as the country we knew is gone which would make more sense but even then, a lot of people would argue that this is what the US has always been like but that it’s just now more emboldened
“A country is a language or dialect with borders and an army” - As long as the US continues to meet those definitions they continue to be a country. Democracy however will likely die in the US though.