Politically Targeting ABC?

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Article in Free Press by Staff, 6/23/26

Headline:  “Free Press Calls on the Carr FCC to End Its Corrupt Crusade Against ABC Programs and Stations”

On Monday, Free Press urged the Federal Communications Commission to stop Chairman Brendan Carr’s capricious and corrupt efforts to bully ABC into complying with President Trump’s political agenda.  . .”

“In a filing about whether the ABC program The View still qualifies for an exemption from the FCC’s Equal Opportunities Rule for political-candidate interviews, Free Press wrote: “The FCC is explicitly prohibited from dictating the editorial decisions of national news networks. . .”

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https://www.freepress.net/news/free-press-calls-carr-fcc-end-its-corrupt-crusade-against-abc-programs-and-stations

Sometimes, Media Admit Error

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Article in Daily Kos by Staff, 6/23/26

Headline:  “Conservative writer learns the hard truth about Trump”

” ‘CNN was right about the war, and I was wrong,’ reads The Hill headline of a column by Becket Adams.

“When it comes to President [Donald] Trump’s disastrous attempt this year at playing war chief, a whole lot of conservatives got it wrong, this author included,” Adams writes. . .”

“In fact, Adams deserves more credit than most conservatives simply for acknowledging the mistake instead of pretending it never happened or screaming, ‘Fake news!’. . .”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/23/800059611/media-and-culture/conservative-writer-learns-hard-truth-about-trump/

Posterior Reporting

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Article in Raw Story by Thom Hartman, 6/22/26

Headline:  “Opinion | The truth about Trump was finally blared across this newspaper’s front page “

“This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump’s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is ‘idiot.’ The translation that George Conway and half of social media reached for, and the one the paper plainly intended, is a good deal blunter than that and more dictionary accurate: ‘a–hole.’. . .”

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https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-meloni/

Did Press Cover Iraq or Iran Better?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jem Bartholomew, 6/22/26

Headline:  “How’d We Do?”

Subhead:  “The press corps failed badly in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq. Was coverage of the Iran war any better?

“. . .’Does this mean—whisper it—that overall the press has had a ‘good’ war, at least compared with the debacle of the run-up to Iraq? I’m still making up my mind. And I’m curious what CJR’s readers think about this—so do respond to this email or send me a note if you’d like to share your thoughts. . .”

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https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/howd-we-do-iran-war-press-corps-iraq-invasion-trump-bush-netanyahu-new-york-times-haberman-swan.php

ABC Fighting Back

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Article in Reuters by David Shepardson, 6/22/26

Headline: “ABC launches on-air campaign urging viewers to back network in Trump agency fights”

“. . .Disney-owned . . .ABC said ​on Monday it was launching an on-air campaign encouraging viewers to show support for the ‌network in its two ongoing battles with the U.S. government.

“The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission ordered ABC in April to file early license reviews for its eight company-owned television stations after President Donald Trump pressured the regulatory agency to take action. The FCC is also ​investigating ABC daytime talk show “The View” after declaring it is subject to federal equal time rules for ​political candida”

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https://www.reuters.com/business/abc-launches-on-air-campaign-urging-views-back-network-trump-fights-2026-06-22/

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 6.22.26

Headline:  “ABC encourages viewers to back network amid FCC investigations”

Subhead:  “Network launches ad on The View, which is target of one of two FCC investigations currently seeking public comment”

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/22/abc-fcc-investigations

AI Stealing the Media

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Article in The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard, 6/18/26

Headline:  “Why Aren’t Newsrooms Covering This AI Speech?”

Subhead:  “A.G. Sulzberger urges the media to unite and fight back.”

The publisher of The New York Times recently made an extraordinary speech about AI, journalism, and the public square that’s received surprisingly little public reaction. . .”

“Sulzberger’s core argument when addressing the annual WAN-IFRA World News Media Conference on June 1 was that Big Tech is stealing the news media’s property and undermining democracy, and that the only solution is for news organizations to work together to resist them. . .”

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https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/why-arnt-newsrooms-covering-this-ai-speech/

Will Foreign Investors Control US Media?

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Article in The Wrap by Lucas Manfredi, 6/19/265

Headline:  “Senators Urge FCC to Prevent Paramount-WB Merger From Closing During Pending Foreign Ownership Review”

Subhead:  “Foreign investors would control 49.5% of the combined company’s equit”

“Three Democratic Senators are urging FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to prevent the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger from closing until its pending foreign ownership review can be completed.

Paramount has maintained that the “indirect foreign ownership of equity interests” in the combined company will be 49.5% and will not result in a transfer of control. However, it has asked the FCC to allow foreign investors “in the aggregate to indirectly hold up to 100 percent of its equity and/or voting interests in light of routine fluctuations in publicly held equity interests and to account for potential future investments.”

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https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deals-ma/paramount-warner-bros-merger-fcc-foreign-ownership-review-letter/

Radio Active Magazine 6/23/26

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Tune in to Radio Active Magazine on Tuesday, 6/23/26 at 6:30 PM on KKFI Community Radio 90.1 FM – streaming at kkfi.org.

FCM’s Spencer Graves will Speak with Dimi Zagorski who describes Wikimedia concerns with European copyright rules including AI and scientific research and the impact of the 2019 European ‘Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market’ “.

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When Media Giants Collide

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Article in Free Press by Staff 6/17/26

Headline:  “The Fight to Stop a Hollywood Mega-Merger Is Far from Over”

“The Justice Department approved the tie-up between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, but states can still sue to block it.”

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https://www.freepress.net/news/fight-stop-hollywood-mega-merger-far-over

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Article in Democracy Now! by Staff, 6/15/26

Headline:  “DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media”

“The Trump administration has approved media conglomerate Paramount’s $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros., one year after Paramount and Skydance Media signed a similar merger that placed Paramount’s movie studio, streaming service and broadcast network CBS under the control of the multibillionaire Ellison family, founders of Skydance and close allies of Donald Trump. The Warner Bros. merger, if completed, would bring an even larger slice of the industry’s market share into Ellison control. . .”

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https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/15/paramount_warner_bros_merger_david_ellison

Media Hawks are Angry

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz. 6/17/26

Headline:  “Right-wing hawks absolve Trump of Iran MOU responsibility, blame Vance instead”

“The right-wing media’s hawks recognize the reported memorandum of understanding that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance signed with Iran on Sunday is a dog’s breakfast that fails to achieve the administration’s stated war goals and leaves the U.S. in a weaker geostrategic position than before it began. But they also understand that the cult-like structure of the MAGA movement means that criticizing Trump directly could trigger an audience revolt . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/right-wing-hawks-absolve-trump-iran-mou-responsibility-blame-vance-instead.