Free Speech
Even Disney Is Fed Up with the FCC’s Dirty Tricks
Brendan Carr’s shady moves against The View should be a major scandal
Craig Aaron
Craig Aaron is the co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action and a guy with two first names.
Free Speech
We’re Doing This Again? Are You Bleeping Kidding Me?
And Other Questions I Have After the Attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
Media
The States Step Up to Stop Nexstar’s TV Takeover
When the FCC won’t do its job or respect the law, it’s time to go to court
Media
Warmongers Come for the Media
Brendan Carr must go — and other lessons from our latest misadventures in media coercion
Future of Journalism
What Cicero Can Teach Us About Making Better Media Policy
And why we keep asking the wrong questions
News
Ed Markey Wants ICE Out of Your Face
The Massachusetts senator tells Pressing Issues: “Surveillance without limits becomes power without accountability. And power without accountability becomes tyranny.”
Media
Breaking Up with Billionaire-Owned Media
To save the media and our democracy, we need to do more than cancel subscriptions to The Washington Post
Free Speech
Pressing Issues Interviews FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez
‘The First Amendment doesn’t disappear just because the government is unhappy with how it is being covered.’
Media
Nexstar’s Big Payback
The nation’s biggest local-TV broadcaster has passed Trump’s loyalty test and is ready to cash in
Media
Liar, Liar, World on Fire
People don’t trust the media because they won’t tell them who’s lying
Media
Pressing Issues Holiday Gift Guide
We’ve (almost) made it to the end of 2025. And we couldn’t have done it without a little help from our friends and favorite writers.
Media
Stop the Merger Madness
Rule No. 1 when big deals get announced: Don’t believe the hype