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Article in Media Matters by Evlondo Cooper, 5/27/26
Headline: “How broadcast TV news covered environmental justice in 2025”
“Environmental justice coverage — reporting that connects the harmful effects of pollution, environmental hazards, or policy decisions to socially marginalized communities — remained nearly absent from corporate broadcast TV news last year, even as environmental risks and pollution exposure affected communities across the country. . .”
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Article in by Michael M. Grynbaym, 5/27/26
Headline: “60 Minutes’ Journalist Who Accused CBS of Political Meddling Loses Her Deal”
Subhead: “Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment on a brutal Salvadoran prison was pulled abruptly in December, said that CBS News and its top editor, Bari Weiss, had let her contract expire.”
“CBS News declined to renew its contract with the “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news division’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss. . .”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/business/media/cbs-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss.html
Article in Free Press by Staff 5/26/26
Headline: “Free Press Objects to Chairman Carr’s ‘Morally Repugnant’ Proposal on TV Warning Labels for Transgender and Nonbinary Content”
“. . .On Friday, Free Press filed comments condemning the FCC’s inquiry on warning labels for what the agency vaguely describes as ‘transgender and gender non-binary programming.’ Earlier this year, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr initiated the proceeding to inquire whether television programs featuring LGBTQIA+ themes should carry specific labels or modified ratings. More than 50 organizations and industry associations, including Free Press, have filed comments to oppose Carr’s proposal. . .”
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Article in The Verge by Terrance O’Brian, 5/15/26
Headline: “AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone / Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused. “
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” is run by Claude, ‘OpenAIR’ by ChatGPT, ‘Backlink Broadcast’ by Google’s Gemini, and ‘Grok and Roll Radio,’ obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt:
“Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever.
“They all failed, some in pretty spectacular fashion. . .”
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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931479/andon-labs-ai-radio-companies
Article in AP by Steven Sloan, 5/25/26
Headline: “Q&A: Anna Gomez is the sole Democrat on the FCC. She has a warning for big media companies”
“. . .Anna Gomez wakes up every morning and checks her phone to see if President Donald Trump has fired her yet.
“For now, she remains the sole Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, where she’s on an increasingly urgent mission to press media companies to more forcefully combat an administration she says is cracking down on free speech. . .”
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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 5/25/26
Headline: “The Gray Lady is a Trump fangirl
“The New York Times has a long history of producing journalism that has changed the course of politics around the globe. And it has done this during Donald Trump’s two presidential terms, exposing inconvenient truths as well as his corruption.
“But unfortunately, in the 16 months since Trump was sworn in for a second term, the outlet has also embarrassed itself by advancing pro-Trump falsehoods, swooning over his rhetoric, and covering up his barrage of misstatements, gaffes, and outright lies. . .”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/25/800043379/media/new-york-times-trump-fangirl/
Article in Status by Natalie Korach, 5/25/26
Headline: “Bezos’ Subdivided Post”
Subhead: “The Washington Post is preparing to significantly shrink its K Street headquarters, Status has learned, marking a stark reversal for the building once touted as a symbol of Jeff Bezos’ vision for the paper’s future.”
“. . .The Post is preparing to slash a significant portion of the very headquarters Bezos once championed as a symbol of the paper’s future, Status has learned. . .”
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https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-offices-sublease-jeff-bezos
Article in Poynter by Tom JJones, 5/26/26
Headline: “Opinion | Stephen Colbert said he’d return to public access TV. Then he actually did it.”
Subhead: “One day after ending his 11-year run on CBS, Colbert resurfaced on a quirky Michigan community access show with Jack White, Jeff Daniels and Eminem”
“Stephen Colbert is already back on TV.
Well, for a moment he was. Just a day after he wrapped up his 11-year run as host of CBS’s “The Late Show,” Colbert made a guest appearance on “Only in Monroe,” a community access show broadcast in southeast Michigan. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/stephen-colbert-public-access-return/
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Article in Mother Jones by Anna Merlan, 5/23/26
Headline: “Stephen Colbert Escaped Late Night and Immediately Started Having Fun”
Subhead: “A gloriously deadpan and silly public access appearance after an ‘excruciating’ 23 hours off-air.”
“In a delightful Easter egg for fans of Stephen Colbert, local television, or the improbable combination of the two, following Colbert’s last-ever Late Show, he popped up the following day as the guest host of ‘Only in Monroe,‘ a public access show in Monroe, Michigan. Colbert presented an hour of local news, assisted, sort of, by his ‘volunteer musical director,’ a deadpan Jack White hunched over a reel-to-reel tape deck with headphones clamped over his ears.
“ ‘It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,’ Colbert declared. ‘So I am grateful to be here on Monroe Community Media before they are also acquired by Paramount.’. . .”
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Article in The Washington Post by Scott Nover, 5/25/26
Headline: “The creation of a new Murdoch empire”
Subhead: “James Murdoch is taking over New York magazine and Vox, building a different media company than his father’s.”
“The name Murdoch hardly evokes a progressive sensibility for many American news consumers. It is most often associated with the right-wing editorial stance of Rupert Murdoch’s most prominent U.S. media properties: the cable giant Fox News, broadsheet the Wall Street Journal and city tabloid the New York Post. . .”
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Interview by Spenser Graves, on Radio Active Magazine airs Tuesday, 5/2/26
“Next Tuesday’s Radio Active Magazine features in interview with U Mass Amherst Communication professor Allison Butler on ‘How women are centered and silenced in the major media’. She has a new book titled, ‘How women are centered and silenced in pop culture’. . .”
A video of the43-minute interview with her is available with the podcast to air on Tuesday. Also airs on Pacifica.
Listen live to the episode at on Tuesday, 6:00 PM at: