As corporate media accelerate their censorship of comedians and journalists, we must realize that we got to this dire situation because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption in Washington, D.C. The problem didn’t begin with President Donald Trump. It began long ago, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, when presidents of both parties and Congress decided to put the nation’s media system in the hands of a small number of ever-larger corporations.

Those corporations were big political donors to both parties. Enormous mergers were approved. Antitrust laws were ignored. Federal Communications Commission rules were changed, and caps on mega-ownership were relaxed or eliminated.

There was nothing natural or inevitable about the process of conglomeration. It was sheer corruption — and Trumpian

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