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Lawmakers Debate A Proposed Solution To Power Of Facebook And Google: Antitrust Immunity For News Media

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This week a bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed a solution to the dominance of Google and Facebook: Give the news media a whole lot more heft.Their bill, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would allow print, online and broadcast outlets to band together to negotiate content deals with online distributors.

The aim is to boost local media in particular, with widespread newspaper closures and layoffs and a decline in once reliable sources of ad revenue.At a House Judiciary antirust subcommittee hearing on Friday, the case was certainly made that the situation for local media is dire: As the subcommittee chairman and chief sponsor of the bill, Rep.

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