- CPB Gets the Ax
- Big Tech Under Legal Fire
- The Democrat at the FCC
- Working at a Tech Co-op
- The Grasp of Palantir
- ADL Backs Clampdown on Social Media
- Corporate Media Flim Flam Progressive Candidates
- The End of Television?
- Bro-casting
- That Was the Show That Was
By Nick Popli
Time
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it would begin winding down its operations after President Donald Trump rescinded $1.1 billion in funding for the nonprofit, which for decades has helped sustain NPR, PBS, and hundreds of local public media stations across the country.
After Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the Big Tech firms continue to be battered by antitrust lawsuits stemming from prior administrations. The cases could even lead to the forced breakup of some of the tech giants.
By Liam Scott
Columbia Journalism Review
As the FCC’s sole Democrat, Anna Gomez has been outspoken about protecting the First Amendment. She told an interviewer that she never thought she’d see the FCC “so willingly cede its independence to this administration and allow itself to be turned into an instrument of censorship and political retaliation.” Every morning before work, she checks her email to see if she’s been fired.
By Catalyst Cooperative
Grassroots Economic Organizing
Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. We filmed this interview to help researchers or coop-curious individuals learn more about what it's like working at a tech cooperative.
By Makena Kelly
Wired
The Trump administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead.
ADL Backs Clampdown on Social Media
By Stephen Prager
Common Dreams
Free speech advocates are raising concerns that a new bipartisan bill would force social media companies to censor criticism of Israel on their platforms. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Don Bacon (R-NE) rolled out the bill, alongside Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Corporate Media Flim Flam Progressive Candidates
By Sam Rosenthal
Common Dreams
The Times’ repeated attempts to twist reality to fit a narrative depicting the collapse of progressive politics is evidence that just the opposite is true: Once again, progressive policies and candidates are on a roll. Grijalva and Mamdani’s wins put the lie to an oft-circulated idea that progressive policy can only win in young, urban areas.
By David Dayen
The American Prospect
Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct, and practically nobody has reckoned with the implications of that.
By Jackson Katz
Ms.
The Trump team’s decision to have the candidate appear on numerous “brocasts” with popular hosts who have large, predominantly young male audiences had paid off handsomely. They intuited, in ways the Democrats are only now beginning to understand, that if politicians want to win young men’s votes, they need to enter those spaces and appear authentic and relatable.
By Patrick Murfin
Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout
Long ago before there was a Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert show, even before there was a Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, there was a little thing on TV called That Was the Week That Was which brought political satire and cutting edge social commentary into the unsuspecting and unprepared living rooms of millions.
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