📰 Media & Journalism 11h ago · CPJ Staff

How US media consolidation endangers press freedom

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is a government agency that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in the United States. Although the agency is supposed to be independent of the executive branch, recent actions by the FCC and comments by its chairman, Brendan Carr, represent a worrying politicization of the agency.



In particular, rather than keeping media consolidation in check, the agency has instead wielded its authority over broadcast licenses

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