Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the Senate, has been raising questions about the bill, several senior congressional sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Two senior congressional aides with knowledge of the bill’s deliberations confirmed Kennedy’s apprehensions heading into a scheduled markup of the proposal in the Senate Judiciary Committee later this week. “Senator Kennedy, who is the lead Republican sponsor of the JCPA, has privately raised questions about the broadness of this legislation, and how it could help Big Media companies, harming conservatives,” one of the aides told Breitbart News.
In essence, the bill is a bailout for the same corporate legacy media that has made an industry of smearing Republicans as extremists, bigots, and worse, pushing conspiracy theories like Russiagate while ignoring legitimate stories that harm their preferred party, like the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell.”
It’s not only Republicans that JCPA supporters have to worry about. Even if the Senate Judiciary Committee moves the bill out of committee, its future is uncertain beyond that. The new version of the bill gives wide powers to the proposed media cartel to pick and choose which news companies may join it and reap the benefits of its negotiations with tech companies, on virtually any criteria they can imagine.
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