On the January 6 edition of his show The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur highlighted Media Matters' recent report detailing how television news outlets have virtually ignored the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as it makes its way through Congress.

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Media Matters found that most major television news outlets -- MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS, and NBC -- have ignored the bill during their evening broadcasts. One network, CNN, devoted a single evening segment to it.

The parent companies of most of these networks, as well as two of the networks themselves, are listed as official “supporters” of this legislation on the U.S. House of Representatives' website.

New York Times media columnist David Carr, who described the legislation as “alarming in its reach,” explained in a column earlier this week that “digitally oriented companies see SOPA as dangerous and potentially destructive to the open Web and a step toward the kind of intrusive Internet regulation that has made China a global villain to citizens of the Web.” Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that the legislation “would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world.”

UPDATE: Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert appeared on the January 9 edition of The Young Turks to discuss SOPA with Uygur.

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