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Dr. Sebastian Gorka hosted Breitbart News senior reporter Allum Bokhari on his America First show to discuss the dangerous new Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), and how it would lead to a whole new era of collusion between Big Tech and Big Media.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) would likely violate the Constitution by compelling speech and could serve as an “Obamacare for the free press.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News that the delay of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) was a “huge victory for free speech” and an indictment of how much Democrats “love censorship.”

After nearly two years of lobbying by representatives of the nation’s largest, wealthiest, and most pro-censorship media companies, after being killed in the House and then revived in the Senate, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is (temporarily) dead again — killed by its champion, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), because Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) successfully added an amendment that would prevent media companies and tech companies from colluding on content moderation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a committee markup to advance the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) after the bill faced bipartisan push back.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shocked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday when he announced that he would back the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). 

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will vote on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would carve out an antitrust exemption for establishment media outlets.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), the lead GOP sponsor of a highly controversial bill that would allow media organizations to formally create cartels, was the lone Republican on Wednesday evening to join all Democrats voting for a judicial nominee from President Joe Biden who has an extensive criminal record.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) will oppose the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), his spokesman confirmed to Breitbart News on Wednesday afternoon.

Lobbyists for big media companies are working overtime to get Republican lawmakers on board with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), promising it will somehow protect conservative media. Yet those same lobbyists are telling Democrats the bill will help curtail “misinformation” online — a buzzword for censoring conservatives.

Mike Pompeo sounded the alarm Wednesday on the Journalism Competition and Protection Act, saying Congress should vote it down.

The News Media Alliance, a trade association representing some of the most powerful media conglomerates, has showered Congress with cash in lobbying and donations to advance the deceptively-named Journalism Competition and Protection Act (JCPA).

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will oppose the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), his spokesman told Breitbart News on Tuesday night.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said in a statement on Tuesday that every conservative should oppose the Journalism Competition and Protection (JCPA), which he believes would allow the establishment media to collude with big tech to “create a media cartel.”

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.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) condemned the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) for a second time after Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released an amended version of the legislation that exacerbates the worst problems of the media cartel bill.

A new version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is circulating that is worse than the original. It allows mainstream, legacy and left-wing media to form exclusionary media cartels and then empowers them with extraordinary collective-bargaining power to collude with Big Tech companies. The amendments serve only to spell out in greater specificity how to exclude conservative and anti-establishment media from any alleged benefits.

Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the Senate GOP whip and a likely contender in any future battle to replace Mitch McConnell as GOP leader, is backing a bill that is effectively a bailout for the discredited corporate media.

Desperate to fend off online competition, lobbyists for corporate media companies have once again revived efforts to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would create a media cartel in the United States, capable of collectively pressuring Big Tech companies to bail them out financially.

R Street Institute fellow Josh Withrow broke down how corporate media giants would be empowered by the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) this weekend, in a segment of Breitbart News Saturday with Matt Boyle on SiriusXM.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has held talks with Microsoft about the Journalism Competition and Preservation act (JCPA), a bill that would allow media companies to form a cartel, exempting them from antitrust law for the sole purpose of colluding with Big Tech companies for advantages over their competitors.

Big media companies are making another attempt to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would protect them from online competition, propping up legacy media in the face of widespread public distrust and a failing business model.

Despite more than six years of Silicon Valley favoritism towards the establishment media, including censorship of its competition and artificial promotion in algorithms, liberal-globalist regimes want Big Tech to do more to protect Big Media from competition. The latest country to take action in this area is Canada.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), already under fire from all sides for his bellicose statements on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, has now risked angering conservative voters across the country by backing a bill that would give legal sanction to collusion between Big Media and Big Tech, empowering corporate media giants like CNN and the New York Times at the expense of independent creators.

Republicans are desperate for policy solutions to the issue of Big Tech, so much so that they’re allowing the Democrat point woman on tech regulation, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), to dupe them into supporting a leftist, pro-censorship agenda.

Dan Gainor, who leads Big Tech and free speech watchdog operations at the Media Research Center, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) last week, warning lawmakers that far from benefiting the local news industry, the bill rewards the same national media outlets that are destroying it.

Speaking at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) last week, Harvard fellow and former FTC antitrust enforcer Dr. Daniel Francis told lawmakers that he “cannot think of anything the country needs less, now or ever” than the kind of national news media cartel the bill would create.

Politico, the liberal magazine that aims to influence D.C. politics but is owned by a foreign media conglomerate, has published a hit piece on Breitbart News over its opposition to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that aims to protect the discredited corporate media — including outlets like Politico — from online competition.

J.D. Vance credited Breitbart News and its editor-in-chief, Alex Marlow, with informing his opposition to the JCPA legislation.

Politico, the liberal political magazine that covers D.C. politics but is owned by a German media conglomerate, Axel Springer, is trying to paint Breitbart News as “on the same side” as Google and Facebook because it won’t join the corporate media in supporting the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would create a news media cartel.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast that President Joe Biden’s “deliberate” and “intentional” facilitation of illegal immigration across the southern border by millions of foreign nationals may lead to impeachment if Republicans win majorities in Congress.

As details emerged about the resignation of CNN president Jeff Zucker after he admitted a sexual relationship with a subordinate, democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were holding a hearing on a bill that would allow the corporate media to form a state-sanctioned cartel to protect themselves from online competition.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a hearing that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would create a big media “cartel” to benefit the New York Times and the Washington Post.

CLAIM: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claims of the media cartel bill: “our bill gives local news outlets the ability to collectively negotiate for fair compensation with companies like Google and Facebook.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would establish a media cartel to coordinate with big tech against conservative media outlets.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) formally announced his opposition to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) on Wednesday ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on the bill.