Democratic AGs Urge Congress to Pass Journalism-Tech Negotiation Bill

Congress should pass legislation to allow media companies to negotiate to force Big Tech to pay to carry news content, a group of Democrat state attorneys general wrote Tuesday. They wrote to Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chair Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in support of their Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (S. 1094) (see 2303310047). Signing were AGs from Washington, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. They called S. 1094 an “important and necessary step to addressing the challenges affecting local news organizations across the country.” Big Tech opposed similar measures advancing at the state level and in Canada and Australia (see 2306010073).