Media Supression

Real Fake News!

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Article in Mediaite by Kathryn Wilkens

Headline: “Ex-60 Minutes Journo Says She Was Asked to Cover Nonexistent Events Under Weiss”

Subhead: “While Vega did not directly name Weiss as having personally made the requests, she pointed to changes under the network’s ‘new administration at CBS News’ “

According to an audio recording obtained by Oliver Darcy’s Status, former 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega accused CBS News chief Bari Weiss of leading a push to include claims in stories that her reporting team could not verify, alleging she was asked to report on incidents that ‘never happened.’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ousted-60-minutes-reporter-says-she-was-asked-to-report-on-things-that-didnt-happen-under-bari-weiss/

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy 7/23/26

Headline: “Vega Breaks Her Silence”

Subhead:  “The fired ’60 Minutes’ correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.“

Read the article at:

https://www.status.news/p/cecilia-vega-cbs-60-minutes-bari-weiss

Subpoena Against Reporters Burned

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Article in UPI by Stephen Feller, 7/23/26

Headline: “Justice Department withdraws subpoenas for New York Times reporters”

“The Department of Justice on Thursday agreed in court to withdraw subpoenas it sent to three journalists at the New York Times to force them to reveal their sources.

“The Justice Department “unilaterally” withdrew the subpoenas after U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian threatened to quash them if it did not do so, ABC News and The New York Times reported. . .”

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/23/justice-department-withdraws-subpoenas-new-york-times/1801784850308/

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Article in The Guardian by Victoria Bekiempis, 7/23/26

Headline: “Trump’s DoJ drops effort to subpoena New York Times over Qatari jet story”

Subhead:  “Journalists had reported on security concerns about US president flying on $400m Air Force One plane from Qatar”

Read the article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/23/new-york-times-reporter-subpoenas-withdraw

Don’t Like Writing? – Call it Treason

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jem Bartholomew, 7/20/26

Headline:   “The Uses of ‘Treason”

Subhead:  “By repeatedly blasting the press as traitors, Trump is trying to solidify his splintering MAGA base.”

“. . .David E. Sanger—the New York Times’ White House and national security correspondent . . .asked about the war with Iran. ‘What would the use be of repeating the bombing? You did it for thirty-eight days, and you did not get the political changes in Iran—’ Trump jumped in: ‘No, I got, I had a total military victory,’ he said, . . . . Then he leaped into a tirade against the press. ‘I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write,’ Trump concluded. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-uses-of-treason-donald-trump-press-traitors-air-force-one-qatar-sanger-subpoenas-maga-base-splinter.php

Journalists Face Danger

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Article in Reporters Without Borders by Staff, July, 2026

Headline: “New RSF Report: National Security as a Weapon Against Journalism”

“In the name of national security, journalists are being prosecuted, imprisoned, surveilled, forced into exile and even killed. In its new report, ‘National Security as a Weapon Against Journalism,’ Reporters Without Borders (RSF) illustrates how the concept of national security has strayed far beyond its original purpose and become a tool of repression against journalism around the world. . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://rsf.org/en/new-rsf-report-national-security-weapon-against-journalism

Teeing-up Court Fight Over Press Freedom

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Article in The Guardian by AP, 7/15/26

Headline: “New York Times files motion to quash justice department’s subpoenas”

Subhead:  “Journalists who had reported on security concerns around the new Air Force One, a gift from Qatar, received summons”

“. . .’As we set out in our motion, these subpoenas are brought in bad faith to punish the Times for its coverage. They violate the constitutional rights of the Times and its journalists. We are going to court to defend our journalists’ rights to report freely on the administration and to provide the public with stories that matter,’ David McCraw, the newspaper’s senior vice-president and deputy general counsel, said in a statement. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/new-york-times-subpoenas-air-force-one

Stomping Out Reporting?

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Article in The Guardian by Margaret Sullivan, 7/14/26

Headline: “With New York Times subpoenas, Trump is brazenly escalating his attacks on the press”

Subhead:  “Federal agents showed up at reporters’ homes, targeting journalists for doing exactly what the first amendment protects”

“To non-journalists, receiving a government subpoena is a serious thing but probably not a violation of basic rights. . .”

” ‘“When the public’s right to know is crushed, as the Trump administration is trying to do … all of us suffer irreparable harm,’ responded Stephen Adler, chairperson of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/14/new-york-times-subpoenas-trump-media

Media Crash by Paramount?

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Article in The Wrap by Roger Cheng, 7/14/26

Headline:  “Paramount-Warner Bros. May Face Devastating Delay With State Antitrust Suit | Analysis”

Subhead:  “The state attorneys general’s effort lives and dies on whether it gets its request for a preliminary injunction to halt the merger granted”

“A dozen states have thrown the long-awaited wrench into the Paramount deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, raising the prospect that its plan faces a delay it can ill afford.

“The 12 state attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta, on Monday filed their lawsuit challenging the $110 billion merger, alleging the deal would reduce competition in the distribution of films and give the combined company too much power when negotiating with TV distributors. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deals-ma/paramount-warner-bros-what-happens-next-after-ags-lawsuit/

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Article in Reporters Without Borders by Staff, 7/13/26

Headline:  “USA: It’s up to state attorneys general to save the US news ecosystem from the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger”

“Time is running out to stop the proposed $111 billion merger between media conglomerates Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, which would place some of the most influential news brands in the US and worldwide under the control of a single owner. . . Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges state attorneys general (AGs) to block this merger, warning that it would reduce Americans’ access to reliable information and undermine media pluralism. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://rsf.org/en/usa-it-s-state-attorneys-general-save-us-news-ecosystem-paramount-warner-bros-merger

Next Step – Subpoena Reporters

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Article by Jeremy Barr in The Guardian, 7/13/26

Headline:  “Is Donald Trump winning his war against the media?”

Subhead:  “President and allies have sued, cut access and issued subpoenas, but experts say media still producing strong work”

“Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on the media to a level without precedent in American history in the first 17 months of his second presidency.

“But have Trump and his allies won their war against the media – or at least put the industry on a weaker footing than in the past? The answer isn’t so straightforward.

“The list of assaults is dizzying. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/13/trump-war-on-media

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Article in Daily Kos by Staff, 7/13/26

Headline:  “Trump’s ugly war on journalists goes airborne”

“News broke over the weekend that the administration had subpoenaed multiple New York Times journalists over the crime of reporting unfavorably on the antics of Dear Leader.

“The administration is very unhappy that the Times reported on the big switcheroo where President Donald Trump, after soaking the taxpayers for untold millions for his fancy new bribe plane, was forced to use his old, sad, shabby existing Air Force One when flying out of Turkey. . .”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/13/800069346/media/trumps-ugly-war-on-journalists-goes-airborne/

Media Trying to Catch-Up?

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Article in The Guardian by Margaret Sullivan, 7/13/26

Headline:  “Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner?”

“After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treatment of the women he dated, the story’s main source reacted with disappointment and anger.

It was a “gift to the Platner campaign”, charged Lyndsey Fifield, who had dated the Democratic combat veteran years ago and who spoke candidly to the Times about that experience.

The story’s headline called his behavior “unsettling”. That adjective seemed particularly careful and quite mild if you read deeper into the story. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/13/graham-platner-media

Student Media Targeted Now?

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Article in FAIR by Hank Kennedy, 7/6/26

Headline:  “Trump Era Repression Trickles Down to Student Press Censorship”

The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The well-known quote from George Santayana appears at the top: ‘Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.’ A bystander observes, ‘Why does this look familiar…?’. . .”

“Within two days, school administrators at Gretna East High School in Omaha, Nebraska, had taken the cartoon off the paper’s website. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/trump-era-repression-trickles-down-to-student-press-censorship/