In a 2021 Gallup poll, only 9% of Americans said they trust the mass media. That distrust has been more than earned, from covering up stories like Hunter Biden’s laptop, to running water for the intelligence community, to an egregious bias on the coronavirus response—the mainstream media has proven itself to be prejudiced, slanted, and less than ethical in its reporting. Due to that, an increasing number of Americans are turning to non-traditional media outlets to get their information.

And that has the mainstream media shooketh.

Has that made them want to change? Do better work? Examine themselves? No.

Instead, they’re using the oldest trick in the book and looking to Congress to crush their competitors via the Journalism Competition and Protection Act of 2022 (JCPA).