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The Incoming FCC Chief Is No 'Warrior for Free Speech'
President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office next week, and his second-term agenda is taking shape as he fills out his administration. One of the first hires announced after the November election was the elevation of Brendan Carr, who sits on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to be the agency's new head.
Trump dubbed Carr "a warrior for free speech," and in response, Carr pledged to "dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans." But Carr appears all too willing to wield the federal censorship apparatus on Trump's behalf.
https://reason.com/2025/01/13/the-incom ... ee-speech/
President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office next week, and his second-term agenda is taking shape as he fills out his administration. One of the first hires announced after the November election was the elevation of Brendan Carr, who sits on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to be the agency's new head.
Trump dubbed Carr "a warrior for free speech," and in response, Carr pledged to "dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans." But Carr appears all too willing to wield the federal censorship apparatus on Trump's behalf.
https://reason.com/2025/01/13/the-incom ... ee-speech/
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CNN settles with US Navy veteran after defamation verdict
New York (CNN) — CNN settled a lawsuit brought by a US Navy veteran over a 2021 segment on evacuations in Afghanistan on Friday, hours after a jury found the network liable for defaming him.
The two-week trial was held in Bay County, Florida. A jury awarded the veteran, Zachary Young, $5 million in compensatory damages.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/media/cn ... index.html
New York (CNN) — CNN settled a lawsuit brought by a US Navy veteran over a 2021 segment on evacuations in Afghanistan on Friday, hours after a jury found the network liable for defaming him.
The two-week trial was held in Bay County, Florida. A jury awarded the veteran, Zachary Young, $5 million in compensatory damages.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/media/cn ... index.html
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Hello, Brendan Carr
If you thought Trump 1.0 FCC Chair Ajit Pai was bad—and he certainly was—Trump 2.0 FCC Chair Brendan Carr will be worse. Much, much worse.
Carr has the experience and knows the Federal Communications Commission quite well. He’s worked at the agency for more than a decade now: first as legal adviser to Commissioner Pai during the Obama administration, and then as commissioner under the Trump and Biden administrations. Most Americans can’t name many regulators, much less FCC members. But they might just know Carr as the most theatrical Trump bureaucrat this side of Pai’s oversize Reese’s mug.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... ernet.html
If you thought Trump 1.0 FCC Chair Ajit Pai was bad—and he certainly was—Trump 2.0 FCC Chair Brendan Carr will be worse. Much, much worse.
Carr has the experience and knows the Federal Communications Commission quite well. He’s worked at the agency for more than a decade now: first as legal adviser to Commissioner Pai during the Obama administration, and then as commissioner under the Trump and Biden administrations. Most Americans can’t name many regulators, much less FCC members. But they might just know Carr as the most theatrical Trump bureaucrat this side of Pai’s oversize Reese’s mug.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... ernet.html
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Fortunately the FCC is irrelevant when it comes to consumer media, because all the action is on the net instead of the air. My wife's new car comes with a complete entertainment center with satellite antenna. It asks you whether you want to sign up for all kinds of wonderful online services. I think there's an AM radio in the package somewhere, but the software which does everything except drive the car for you hides it. It took forever to find the channel that had the ball games for free.
Several Republican presidents already neutered the FCC. It was one of those Republican witch hunting causes, but not so much any more, because they don't have to do much more. Now mostly it issues licenses for the various things that still get done on the public airwaves. It's just another typical Federal bureaucracy.
Several Republican presidents already neutered the FCC. It was one of those Republican witch hunting causes, but not so much any more, because they don't have to do much more. Now mostly it issues licenses for the various things that still get done on the public airwaves. It's just another typical Federal bureaucracy.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
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Prince Harry settles legal battle against Murdoch papers, the Sun admits wrongdoing
LONDON - Prince Harry settled his privacy claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group on Wednesday after the publisher admitted unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time, bringing the fiercely contested legal battle to a dramatic end.
In a stunning victory for Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, also admitted it had intruded into the private life of his late mother, Princess Diana.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 871872007/
LONDON - Prince Harry settled his privacy claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group on Wednesday after the publisher admitted unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time, bringing the fiercely contested legal battle to a dramatic end.
In a stunning victory for Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, also admitted it had intruded into the private life of his late mother, Princess Diana.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 871872007/
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Republicans -> Supreme Court takeover -> Citizens United -> Ray Gun -> Deregulation -> Fox Nooz -> Oligarchy -> Right wing media takeover -> MAGA -> Kleptopcracy -> Rollback of Americans' rights -> Robber baron takeover of all institutions
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
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But not real news just continuous corporate propaganda.
CNN Plots Major Overhaul as It Enters a New Trump Era
Give people news when and where they want it.
That, says Mark Thompson, CNN’s CEO, was one of the brilliant insights Ted Turner had when he started the network at the dawn of cable TV. And if CNN doesn’t follow that advice for the digital age, Thompson says, the company may no longer exist.
https://www.theweeklyjournal.com/lifest ... b13ae.html
CNN Plots Major Overhaul as It Enters a New Trump Era
Give people news when and where they want it.
That, says Mark Thompson, CNN’s CEO, was one of the brilliant insights Ted Turner had when he started the network at the dawn of cable TV. And if CNN doesn’t follow that advice for the digital age, Thompson says, the company may no longer exist.
https://www.theweeklyjournal.com/lifest ... b13ae.html
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Trump picks father of convicted Jan. 6 rioter to serve as CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
"As Founder and President of the Media Research Center for 38 years, few understand the Global Media landscape in print, television, and online better than Brent," Trump said in an announcement on Truth Social. "He and his family have fought for the American principles of Liberty, Freedom, Equality, and Justice for generations, and he will ensure that message is heard by Freedom-loving people around the World."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna188877
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
"As Founder and President of the Media Research Center for 38 years, few understand the Global Media landscape in print, television, and online better than Brent," Trump said in an announcement on Truth Social. "He and his family have fought for the American principles of Liberty, Freedom, Equality, and Justice for generations, and he will ensure that message is heard by Freedom-loving people around the World."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna188877
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Good luck Jim
Jim Acosta Expected To Leave CNN
Jim Acosta is expected to leave CNN, according to Oliver Darcy of Status News.
Darcy, a former CNN reporter, on Monday night said the 18-year veteran of the network has indicated to associates that he plans to leave the network after being removed from his 10 a.m. weekday time slot by CNN CEO Mark Thompson.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breaking-ji ... leave-cnn/
Jim Acosta Expected To Leave CNN
Jim Acosta is expected to leave CNN, according to Oliver Darcy of Status News.
Darcy, a former CNN reporter, on Monday night said the 18-year veteran of the network has indicated to associates that he plans to leave the network after being removed from his 10 a.m. weekday time slot by CNN CEO Mark Thompson.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breaking-ji ... leave-cnn/
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Instagram is now a cesspool of MAGAt propaganda. Doesn’t matter what you do to try and stop it. I’ve gone into my settings a number of times blocking RW political keywords and phrases and setting it to show less politics etc. and it doesn’t do a thing. I’m on there mostly to view music posts and home renovation material. It’s not freedom of speech when you’re forcing fascism on users. These Oligarchs need to go down. Guess I’ll start looking at another platform. Instagram is the only social media app I use now but not for much longer.
"Some of those that work forces,
Are the same that burn crosses"
- Rage Against the Machine
Are the same that burn crosses"
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Big Tech became a problem because three people bought up the means by which most of the public was communicating, and the only real competition was from Chinese information warfare. Some choice.
Underlying that was the usual process that any industry goes through when it becomes the latest buzz product that absolutely everyone wants.
Underlying that was the usual process that any industry goes through when it becomes the latest buzz product that absolutely everyone wants.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
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FCC chair launches investigation into NPR, PBS
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.”
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing
commercials,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote to the news outlets in a letter first obtained by The New York Times. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5116 ... tion-carr/
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.”
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing
commercials,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote to the news outlets in a letter first obtained by The New York Times. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5116 ... tion-carr/
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Figures that the FCC would look like it was finally growing a pair when there was someone who the oligarchy wanted to go after.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
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‘60 Minutes’ chief says he won't apologize as part of any Trump settlement
60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens told the program’s staff on Monday that he would not offer up an apology as part of any anticipated settlement the company reaches with Donald Trump in his ‘meritless’ lawsuit against CBS, sources told The Independent.
Owens’ remarks — which were first reported by The New York Times — come as executives at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have been in talks with the president’s legal team on potentially settling his $10 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that ran last October. Trump has accused the network of “doctoring” the interview with his 2024 rival to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the presidential election.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 91973.html
60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens told the program’s staff on Monday that he would not offer up an apology as part of any anticipated settlement the company reaches with Donald Trump in his ‘meritless’ lawsuit against CBS, sources told The Independent.
Owens’ remarks — which were first reported by The New York Times — come as executives at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have been in talks with the president’s legal team on potentially settling his $10 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that ran last October. Trump has accused the network of “doctoring” the interview with his 2024 rival to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the presidential election.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 91973.html
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What we have here is coercion to keep the media toeing the party line. Just like Russia, except people don't disappear at 5 AM... yet...
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
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’60 Minutes’ Staffers Urged to Keep Show Ticking as Paramount Tangles With Trump
Staffers at “60 Minutes” urged one another to keep the venerable CBS newsmagazine going even as corporate parent Paramount Global investigates the possibility of settling what is seen as a flimsy lawsuit tied to a report that ran on the show.
Speaking during a meeting held Monday, both correspondents Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper cautioned an assemblage of employees who work for the Sunday-night mainstay against letting the lawsuit tear the show apart and distract people from the journalism is presents each week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/60-min ... 236296675/
Staffers at “60 Minutes” urged one another to keep the venerable CBS newsmagazine going even as corporate parent Paramount Global investigates the possibility of settling what is seen as a flimsy lawsuit tied to a report that ran on the show.
Speaking during a meeting held Monday, both correspondents Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper cautioned an assemblage of employees who work for the Sunday-night mainstay against letting the lawsuit tear the show apart and distract people from the journalism is presents each week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/60-min ... 236296675/
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Acosta targets Musk in first netcast since leaving CNN: ‘What is his job?’
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta questioned why billionaire Elon Musk should be handed power to fire federal employees or granted access to sensitive information about American taxpayers.
“What is his job? Who voted for him? He hasn’t been confirmed by the Cabinet or by the Senate to be a part of the Cabinet. And yet he’s been given all of this latitude,” Acosta said as part of video monologue posted on his Substack. “And so, I think some key questions have been asked as to what is going to take place moving forward with what Elon Musk is doing inside the Trump administration.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5126 ... usk-trump/
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta questioned why billionaire Elon Musk should be handed power to fire federal employees or granted access to sensitive information about American taxpayers.
“What is his job? Who voted for him? He hasn’t been confirmed by the Cabinet or by the Senate to be a part of the Cabinet. And yet he’s been given all of this latitude,” Acosta said as part of video monologue posted on his Substack. “And so, I think some key questions have been asked as to what is going to take place moving forward with what Elon Musk is doing inside the Trump administration.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5126 ... usk-trump/
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FCC Investigates CA News Station Over Reporting on Immigration Enforcement
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into a San Francisco radio station after it broadcasted details about activity by immigration officials in San Jose, a development that has sounded the alarm for press freedom advocates.
The inquiry into station KCBS, initiated by FCC Chair Brendan Carr, focuses on the station’s reporting on January 26, which included vehicle descriptions and live locations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Jose, California. Press freedom advocates have said that such reporting is protected by federal law, as it concerns the public interest.
https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-inves ... forcement/
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into a San Francisco radio station after it broadcasted details about activity by immigration officials in San Jose, a development that has sounded the alarm for press freedom advocates.
The inquiry into station KCBS, initiated by FCC Chair Brendan Carr, focuses on the station’s reporting on January 26, which included vehicle descriptions and live locations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Jose, California. Press freedom advocates have said that such reporting is protected by federal law, as it concerns the public interest.
https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-inves ... forcement/
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It really is the media, stupid. The BBC gets money from the government (in other words, the taxpayers), and it still tells it like it is... most of the time anyway. Latest example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew5rwpw579o
What's our problem? Oh right, that oligarchy thing. Pardon me for forgetting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew5rwpw579o
MI5 is military intelligence. Very large, powerful agency. Part of the government that funds the BBC. BBC does their job anyway.MI5 lied to courts to protect violent neo-Nazi spy
MI5 lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal.
Arguing for secrecy, the Security Service told judges it had stuck to its policy of not confirming or denying informants' identities.
In fact, MI5 had disclosed the man's status in phone calls to me, as it tried to persuade me not to investigate the man - known publicly only as agent X.
The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue, including a recording of one of the calls.
What's our problem? Oh right, that oligarchy thing. Pardon me for forgetting.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22