TODAY at 3pm ET: the #SenateJudiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing on "Breaking the News – Journalism, Competition, and the Effects of Market Power on a Free Press." You can follow me and my colleague @M_F_Rose for highlights & watch live at judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/break….
According to @SenAmyKlobuchar in @washingtonpost, the hearing today will be “entirely devoted” to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act #JCPA, a bill @publicknowledge has consistently opposed 2/
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Hey, we're big fans of local news, and have consistently advocated for ways to help ensure citizens have the news they need to play their part in our democracy 3/ publicknowledge.org/the-free-press…
But #JCPA, just...no. This so-called "safe harbor for news” would allow news companies to collectively negotiate compensation terms for their news stories with the largest online platforms. But it won't be able to ensure access to local, credible, independent news 4/
We joined other public interest groups in a letter to the Antitrust Subcommittee: publicknowledge.org/policy/public-… - it says that as written, the #JCPA will alter the free and open nature of the internet... 5/
...and #JCPA does little to:
❌ensure more reporters on the beat
❌help the kind of news organizations that represent local journalism’s brightest future
❌allow news organizations to be compensated fairly for their work. 6/6
❌ensure more reporters on the beat
❌help the kind of news organizations that represent local journalism’s brightest future
❌allow news organizations to be compensated fairly for their work. 6/6
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