Article in Alternet by John Stoehr, 6/28/26
Headline: “Opinion | Trump is sleeping in public and possibly on experimental drugs—but the media is silent”
“Why did Donald Trump blow up a signing ceremony. . .”
“On Wednesday, California Congressman Ted Lieu suggested an answer – that the 80-year-old president no longer has the mental capacity to recognize what’s in his own best interest. . . .”
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https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/old-trump-media/
Article in The New Republic by Hafiz Rashid, 6/30/26
Headline: “Judge Cites Hegseth’s Own Words as He Blocks Pentagon’s Media Limits”
Subhead: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s words came back to haunt him, as a federal judge blocked his restrictions on reporters covering the Pentagon.”
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s complaints about media coverage came back to bite him Tuesday.
“A federal judge ordered a preliminary injunction against the Defense Department’s restrictions on press access to the Pentagon, based in part on ‘a consistent stream of derisive comments beginning shortly after the confirmation of Secretary Hegseth and continuing through the present.’. . .”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/212574/judge-cites-hegseth-blocks-pentagon-media-limits
Article in The Intercept by Seth Stern and Jeremy Busby, 6/26/26
Headline: “30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech”
Subhead: “The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to outlaw free speech.”
“The Trump administration attacking the right to publish or report information is a given at this point. The president has threatened journalists for everything from questioning the wisdom of his failed war with Iran to touching the peeled lining of his renovated reflecting pool.
“Tantrums like those may now feel routine, but this week marked a new front in Trump’s war on information: Daniel ‘Des’ Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. He’s one of eight defendants sentenced on Tuesday to a combined 450 years — the first prison sentences against so-called “antifa” handed down under the framework of NSPM-7, President Donald Trump’s sweeping ‘counterterrorism’ memorandum to clamp down on dissent from the left. . .”
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https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 6/26/26
Headline: “US reporter urges supreme court to halt ruling forcing her to reveal sources or pay $800-a-day fine”
Subhead: “Catherine Herrridge makes final bid to stave off penalty related to series of stories she wrote in 2017 for Fox News“
“More than two years ago, a US district court judge took the extraordinary step of holding the veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt, ordering her to pay a steep daily fine of $800 per day unless she reveals her sources for a series of stories she wrote in 2017 for Fox News.
“Since then, the case has slowly moved through the appeals process, with Herridge dealt a series of defeats. On Tuesday, the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit issued a one-sentence ruling denying Herridge’s plea to stay the February 2024 ruling holding her in contempt, an order made by district court judge Christopher R Cooper. . . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/26/us-reporter-supreme-court-sources-fine
Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 6/25/26
Headline: “US media regulator Brendan Carr accuses Disney of ‘misinformation’ on investigations”
Subhead: “Disney-owned ABC launched awareness campaign about two FCC investigations it faces, urging viewers to write in”
“Brendan Carr, the Trump-aligned chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has accused Disney of running a “campaign of misinformation” as the media group defends itself against investigations the regulator has initiated.
“Disney-owned ABC launched a public awareness campaign earlier this week to encourage viewers to back the network as it faces two separate investigations before the US media regulator.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/25/disney-brendan-carr-fcc-investigation
Article in Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, 6/23/26
Headline: “Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed by Israel in Gaza”
“Israel is continuing to attack Gaza despite the so-called ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, and at least six people, including two children, on Saturday. Wishah’s brother Mohammed, who also worked for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike this April. Israel has now killed over 260 journalists in Gaza, including at least 12 working for Al Jazeera, since October 2023. . .”
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https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/23/israel_gaza_journalists
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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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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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
Article in AlterNet by Thom Hartman, 6/7/26
Headline: “Opinion | One defiant stand is sending shockwaves through Trump’s media takeover”
Over the past year and a half, we’ve watched Brendan Carr, Trump’s hitman at the FCC, go to CPAC conferences and brag about how he’s going to assault stations that say things he and Trump dislike. He’s trying to intimidate ABC affiliates into muzzling Jimmy Kimmel — again. And he succeeded in taking down Stephen Colbert.
“And a Trump-adjacent billionaire nepo-baby has acquired CBS and is systematically stripping it of its journalistic integrity,
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https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/scott-pelley-trump/
Article in Mediaite by Michael Luciano, 6/3/26
Headline: “Kaitlan Collins Responds To Trump’s Oval Office Outburst at Her, Points Out She ‘Had Yet To Ask the President a Question’ “
“. . .the president seemed clearly irritated when he was asked earlier today why his administration says it is not moving forward with that $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, as they have called it,’ she said. ‘And just to note, as you’re about to listen to this, this first exchange actually occurred before I had yet to ask the president a question’. . . .”
” ‘CNN’s a very corrupt organization with a corrupt reporter standing right there,’ Trump said. ‘Never smiles. A young, beautiful woman. Never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes’. . .”
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