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The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

behold, once again, how corporate media ownership and public interest journalism foundationally cannot be, and will never be, properly aligned it's why we need publicly-owned and funded media, which Carr is also trying to destroy with sham investigations

the campaign results in a U.S. press that's incapable of being honest with itself (or its audience) about what's actually happening. Which a lot of ivy league brunchlord media folks used to breathlessly deny but has become so ham-fisted during Trumpism the facade has crumbled completely

anyway, the lesson for journalists is: don't platform or interview anybody that might upset the thin-skinned president

I do hope this means a continuation of the rise in independent journalism