Bernie Sanders 'disappointed' in Ed Schultz cancellation

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27. Another reason why the Telecomm act of 1996 should NEVER have been signed in to law!

Many of us were focused on the unconstitutional "Communications Decency Act" that would enable invasion of privacy and censorship on a widespread basis on the internet, but the rest of that act also screwed our media industry so much in allowing the messy state of corporate media we have today.

I'm happy to notice recently that Bernie was one of just a few in congress that voted against that bill too then. Wisdom them as he also exhibits it now, and consistently so too!

MSNBC has been trying to exploit the left leaning audience that had been ignored by so many other corporate media entities, but it looks like they want to push them aside now too in the interests of their 1% owners.

It's too bad that Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera. I watch Al Jazeera and RT for certain shows (like Thom Hartmann on RT and Fault Lines on AJ) but I really would like an American owned channel that feels it is more responsible to the vast majority of Americans as an audience, and not to corporate owners or foreign owners and their agendas.

Had Ed Schultz moved to Current TV and they still had shows like the Young Turks and others on it, then who knows maybe that would become the news media outlet we really needed in this election that wasn't so "corporatized" like all of the other mainstream media is now. Maybe Olbermann might have fixed his problems with his old show on that channel and returned there instead of MSNBC too. I think given what happened to Schultz, I think he'd be happier with that return than one to MSNBC.