It’s fair to say that the most important defense against the lunacy of Donald Trump has so far been the power of the free press.
But that power itself is under assault. Google and Facebook are vacuuming up nearly all digital advertising, leaving publications scrambling to find revenue. The FCC, under Trump’s hand-picked commissioner, is poised to repeal net neutrality, which will give corporate America even more power over what messages are heard. Conservative billionaires, including the Koch brothers, are buying up ever more news outlets, turning more and more media into pro-Trump state propaganda. All while the president and his supporters use “fake news” as a pejorative to delegitimize legitimate journalism.
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