What is the parties' stance on media consolidation?

What is the parties' stance on media consolidation?

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There are factions in both parties that like diverse media. Obviously the more liberal factions in the Democratic Party don't like the big business aspect of media. So media consolidation means big business consolidation and so they're against that. On the other hand, there are factions in the Republican Party that genuinely dislike mass media regardless of whether it is business consolidated or not and they really like the idea of alternative sources of media, like radio, like the internet and other things. But, however, looking into that generally in terms of media consolidation as a big business issue, Republicans are less worried about big business, and more look at it as we've kind of got to let the free market go its way and the free market allows companies to consolidate one day and it fragments them the next. So you know comparing it to the airline industry, we had Big Three airlines in one decade, the next decade you have Jet Blue and Southwest and it's very diverse and that's the hand of the free market. Whereas the Democrats are more worried about consolidation meaning bad things for the media industry.