The media landscape's merging and anti-competitiveness started way back in the Clinton years and textbook revolving doors continued right up to Trump with Tom Wheeler being a textbook regulated becoming a regulator.
Nothing changed with Trump. He's just not (and probably not capable of) making an increased effort to reduce the permanence of power among money elites.
Having his personal net worth reduced pre vs post election as opposed to an increase for Clinton and Obama is probably as big a step in the right direction in favor of net neutrality than anything. A proper publicly funded election for the legislature is the next ultimate solution that will solve all this. The next best possibility is a self-funded election. An elite-funded election which is the state of the US is the worst option and the root cause of this.
No, it was well underway in the early 1980s; I think it started in the 1970s. The impact it was having on reporting was already a major discussion point before Clinton was elected.
Campaign donations and lobbying are a systematic problem, but laying the blame there and only there ignores the fact that there there are degrees of complicitness within a corrupt system, as well as degrees of the impact imposed by the corruption itself. Ultimately only one side of the aisle seems so eager to get in bed with ISPs to destroy the internet, to deny climate change in support of their fossil fuel benefactors, and to dismantle the healthcare system for the benefit of the rich.
Also, ask yourself which party supports citizen United, and which party obstructed any progress on legislative efforts to address it?
Getting the oppressed to self-drain oxygen by subdividing everyone into every which way to stop conversation about their self interest is the success the elites are seeking. The only meaningful distinction in today's america's social struggles is the class distinction between the common and the elite.
The (CNN approved) examples you're giving are right. Though there are tons of non corporate news reported 'republican' things democrats have more success doing like making Bush elite tax cuts permanent, more wars of invasion, banking deregulation, social security privatization.
> but laying the blame there and only there ignores the fact that there there are degrees of complicitness within a corrupt system, as well as degrees of the impact imposed by the corruption itself
Sounds circular. Or maybe I misunderstood what you meant. Can you rephrase?
"The only way to fix anything is to fix everything" is deeply intellectually lazy and allows you to disengage from any politics until it meets your idealised standard of what politics should be. Lets you feel great while you achieve absolutely nothing. We can all do better than that.
> You admit that the OP was correct that things were different under the Obama administration
What are you referring to?
> "The only way to fix anything is to fix everything"
What are you referring to? I'm saying let's fix the problem instead of being dragged into beating each other over unrelated bikeshedding while the beneficiaries of the problem continue to benefit. How did that translate into "The only way to fix anything is to fix everything"?
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