From TPM: The conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group owns more television stations than any other broadcaster in the U.S. That ownership means it can dominate and set the agenda for local news channels seen by millions of people, every day, across...
Victor Pickard, associate professor of communication at the University Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School, talked with Jacobin's Meagan Day recently about the threat to the internet posed by the Federal Communication Commission's looming decision to do...
Republican Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse recently confronted Donald Trump for attacking the First Amendment. Social media reviews were mixed, the worst accusing Sasse of grandstanding, the most positive begging him to say and do more. Then...
Donald Trump has moved from incessantly whining about media coverage that is critical of him and his administration, to directly threatening to use the power of the federal government to shut it—and the First Amendment—down. Welcome to the...
Donald Trump made it through his visit to Las Vegas without apparently throwing paper towels at anyone or telling shooting victims to “have a good time.” But on Thursday his mind has already turned back to his favorite subject. On Wednesday, Trump...
This, right here, is what Autocratic neo-Fascism looks like. A civil rights group has launched a bid to prevent White House lawyers from obtaining private data of possibly thousands of Facebook users via search warrants linked to anti-Trump...
This has gone on long enough: Throughout the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump would frequently turn the attention of rallygoers to the areas containing journalists, who would then be greeted with obscenities and taunts. Journalists are...
