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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

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:

apnews.comHow an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on mediaSix days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM and other outlets reported on local immigration raids.
Abbey
@abbeyarletto.bsky.social

Will Democrats investigate Brendan Carr for repeatedly abusing his position in service of Trump? The mergers he helped push through should be scrutinized and broken up.

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Democrats historically are pretty terrible on media policy. I'd like to see that change now that they have such concrete evidence of harm and criminal behavior.

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Abbey
@abbeyarletto.bsky.social

Historically speaking, much of the shit we're currently living through could have been avoided if Clinton hadn't put his John Hancock on the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We need a Lina Khan type to run the FCC.