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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 replacement of journalism with lazy infotainment journalistic simulacrum. The demonization and dismantling of public media. The elimination of media consolidation rules. And now the ham-fisted censorship campaign against the few remaining major networks right wingers don't own. it's not subtle

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