Corporate Media

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Article in The Contrarian by Josh Levs, 12/3/25

Headline:  “The Media Helped Trump Spread a Lie After the National Guard Shooting”

Subhead:  “The job of the media is to provide truth, which equals facts plus context.”

“The shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., last week should have led to bipartisan action—specifically, an immediate commitment to shoring up protections for these men and women who volunteer to serve. Instead, it became President Donald Trump’s latest opportunity to spread a made-up number to Americans. And the legacy media, as always, helped him. . .”

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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-media-helped-trump-spread-a-lie

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Article in Politico by Daniel Block, 12/2/25

Headline:  “News Organizations Are Bowing to Trump. This Small Magazine Knows How to Resist.”

Subhead:  “U.S. media outlets could learn some lessons from The Caravan.”

“. . .In India, the crackdown has been effective: the country’s mainstream media now rarely critiques Modi. In the United States, the press is also starting to pull some of its punches. But if India’s trajectory is cause for alarm, it also provides some reason for hope. . .”

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/01/lessons-on-surviving-autocracy-from-one-small-indian-magazine-00667380

Journalists Enable Madmen?

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Article in Daily Beast by Jack Revell, 11/28/25

Headline:  “Rosie O’Donnell Rages at Reporters Enabling ‘Madman’ Trump”

Subhead:  “Trump’s long-time rival says journalists let him ‘verbally rape a woman’ with his ‘stupid person’ outburst.”

“. . .Reacting to a viral clip of the president berating a female reporter as ‘stupid’ on Thursday, O’Donnell said that White House journalists need to push back on Trump’s personal attacks.

“ ‘A decent person would stand up in spite of their job and say ‘I will not sit here and watch you verbally assault and attack and rape a woman,’ O’Donnell said.. .”

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https://archive.ph/O1p1F#selection-1381.1-1391.160

Buying All The Media?

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Article in Common Dreams by Robert Reich, 11/26/25

Headline:  “The Billionaires Destroying Our Media System and What To Do About It”

Subhead: “In an era when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals who have bought up key media, there is a growing danger that the public will not be getting the truth it needs to function in this democracy”

“The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

“The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios.

“Another billionaire owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post.

“Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? Vanity may play a part, but there’s a more pragmatic — some might say sinister — reason. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/billionaire-ownership-media

Media Are Waking Up?

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Article in The New Republic by Greg Sargent, 11/24/25

Headline:  “Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So”

Subhead:  “As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.”

“Suddenly, media outlets seem to have figured out that President Donald Trump is really, really unpopular. There’s been a palpable shift in the discourse: The New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump, suggesting he’s losing his grip on the party. Axios claims that it’s ‘red alert’ time for Trump and the GOP. . .”

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https://newrepublic.com/article/203559/trump-weak-failing-president-media-finally-saying

TV Anchors’ Pink Slips?

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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 11/20/25

Headline:  “Is CNN next on Trump’s media hit list?”

“Billionaire Larry Ellison, whose company Paramount Skydance is considering acquiring the parent company of CNN, reportedly discussed firing anchors at the network with the Trump administration. . .”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/20/2354770/-Is-CNN-next-on-Trump-s-media-hit-list?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web

Media Promote War?

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Article in Common Dreams by Ricardo Vaz, 11/20/25

Headline:  “Venezuela Gets the Iraq Treatment: US Corporate Media Manufactures Consent for Another Imperialist War”

Subhead:  “Over weeks of military buildup and threats, corporate outlets elected to ignore the evidence disproving Trump’s claims and to platform warmongers.”

“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. Rather, they are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

War and Media

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Article in FAIR by Ricardo Vaz, 11/19/25

Headline: “Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela”

“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-parrot-dubious-drug-claims-that-justify-war-on-venezuela/

Networks Have Broadcast Licenses?

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 11/18/25

Headline:  “Trump threatens ABC News broadcast license after reporter asks about Epstein “

“President Trump attacked an ABC News reporter Tuesday after she asked about the Epstein files, threatening to have the network taken off the air for questioning him about the controversy. . .”

Read the full story at:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5611057-president-trump-threatens-abc/

Eating All the Media?

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Article in Poynter by Al Tompkins, 11/18/25

Headline: “Scripps tells staff a Sinclair takeover isn’t a done deal, even after surprise stock purchase”

“Scripps Broadcasting president and CEO Adam Symson told employees Monday that a takeover by rival Sinclair Broadcasting is far from a done deal, even after Sinclair announced it had purchased more than 8% of Scripps stock and had been in merger talks for months. . .”

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https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/scripps-tells-staff-a-sinclair-takeover-is-unlikely-despite-surprise-stock-purchase/

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 11/18/25

Headline: “The War for Warners”

Subhead:  “Paramount, Comcast, and Netflix are preparing final bids for Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will reorder the media landscape”

“. . . Variety had reported, and then largely walked back, that Paramount had ‘formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi’ to pursue a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. . .”

“What is accurate is that Paramount is preparing its final bid for WBD, which Ellison still hopes to swallow whole despite David Zaslav’s best efforts to beat back the takeover. . .

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/warner-bros-discovery-bids-paramount-comcast-netflix

Media Looking Away?

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Article in FAIR by Ari Paul, 11/17/25

Headline:  “For NYT, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal”

“. . .It is a hallmark of corrupt societies that institutions like the media simply accept that payoffs and the personal business interests of politicians supersede public service. A good example of this casual resignation to a corrupt regime came from the New York Times (11/15/25) under the headline ‘Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal.’ ”

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https://fair.org/home/for-nyt-trumps-gulf-corruption-is-the-new-normal/