The corporate-loving legislation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [0] signed by Beej Clinton axed the idea of keeping separate the mega corporations and our source for truth. For now, we Americans are very lucky that the internet has not been outright taken over by the same actors, although YouTube sure seems to think we all want to know what boomer news has to say, for example https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FTX .

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996