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Your Call's Media Roundtable: The FCC's plan to end net neutrality, the cost of media consolidation

Net Neutrality rules prohibits internet service providers from speeding up, slowing down, or blocking any content, but that’s about to change.

On Your Call’s media round table, we’ll discuss the FCC's plan to repeal the 2015 net neutrality protections, and its recent decision to eliminate the long-standing media ownership rules, paving the way for greater media consolidation. We'll also discuss Donald Trump's retweets of anti-Muslim propaganda videos.

Guests:

Richard Gizbert, creator and host of Al Jazeera English's weekly media critique and analysis show

Andy Kroll, investigative reporter for Mother Jones based in Washington, D.C., and a contributing writer for The California Sunday Magazine

Craig AaronPresident & CEO of Free Press 

Web Resources:

Al Jazeera: The Listening Post

Free Press

Mother Jones: Ready for Trump TV? Inside Sinclair Broadcasting’s Plot to Take Over Your Local News