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Trump’s FCC starts harassing public broadcasters with bogus investigations, despite no evidence of actual violations — Public broadcasting (what very little the U.S. has) challenges right-wing perspectives distributed via AM radio, broadcast TV, cable TV, and the internet


If you hadn’t noticed, consolidated corporate media hasn’t been meeting the challenges of the current moment very well. There’s generally two reasons: one, these media outlets ten…

Both combined result in a sort of pseudo-journalistic mush that traffics in feckless “ he said, she said” false equivalency journalism and has trouble accurately informing readers of the truth. Studies generally show publicly-funded journalism tends to result in healthier democracies for the reasons outlined above. It is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”

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