Study Shows Corporate Cable Networks Largely Ignoring FCC Plan to Kill Net Neutrality

November 29, 2017

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

With just over two weeks left until the FCC is set to vote on chairman Ajit Pai's plan to decimate Net Neutrality, a new study published on Tuesday by Media Matters for America found that corporate-cable and broadcast-news coverage of Pai's proposed Net Neutrality repeal has been sorely lacking — and, in some cases, nonexistent.

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