Can the Free Press Be Saved?

If Disney announced another round of layoffs On ABC News Last week it went through a year in which Almost 15,000 jobs in the media were lost-and stopped a quarter of a century in which we saw Thousands of independent publications Close or combined with larger conglomerates.

The result is that the Americans are now trapped in the information environment, more severely controlled than if -a few oligarchs.

The media in this direction for decades, but the story has lost all the subtlety when Jeff Bezos issued X message heard around the world. He stated this Washington Post Focus on “Personal Liberty and Free Markets”. This certainly means more editorial attention to suffocating monopolies such as AmazonSo?

Main media long have encountered a decrease in the audience and as a result counted more and more on corporate benefactors. Now that these vocues are struggling to prove loyalty to their own benefactor in the White House, these necessary institutions are delayed by carrying water for a billionaire class, otherwise Daddy at all. The task of restoring truly independent information schedules, and then gets into journalists, readers and any interested citizens who recognize how much our free press have become – if there is hope for the fourth estate that pursues the line against the second Trump regime.

The editorial attempt on corporate interests goes back to the creation of an era of the media when competing newspapers of the Ultra-Coofa Committee William Randolf Herst and Joseph Pulitzer participated in sensationalists the race to the bottomPublishing headlines, exaggerations, gossip and rumors that (among other consequences) helped provoked by the His-American War.

Yellow journalism, as it was called, decreased due to the normative efforts of independent agencies, such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which established Doctrine of justice Requiring equal coverage of conflicting perspectives on the following questions (such as Trump’s constant attempt take on fcc). But Ronald Reagan, in his crazy Laissez-Faire, canceled this rule. In order not to overtake, Bill Clinton signed the deregulation The 1996 Telecommunications Actwhich Critics fell “Essentially purchased and paid by corporate media.”

In the same year, Nation published a special question about what we called Nation -state entertainment. It grows in detail the media industrial complex, where the corporations that our news programs have been more and more programming public opinion. We presented this syndicate with a glossy central octopus chart with four tentacles, one for each of the dominant media -monkeys in America: Disney, General Electric, Time Warner and Westinghouse (now CBS). Today, Six tentacles are controlled More than 90 faith in our information.

Now everything is different, not for the better. While this news was a small cog in large corporate structures long before this second Trump administration, we are now seeing the mass public capitulation of corporate owners in such a way that feels unprecedented. Whether today’s media owners will be owners of large federal contracts or expect their knees so that their companies are not considered as an “enemy”, the cooler effect is: the main media publications are even more stimulated to consider rich and powerful gloves, if not direct sycopathicness.

Few who give up this will have to face court Head of State. Currently the most powerful person in the world sue Only predicted that Kamala Harris would win the state last November; What he calls “election fraud”, most people call the “poll”. With this context, there are any reason to expect that such famous players like Paramount and parachuzh Would you do anything, except to draw a line if it means getting a FCC permit for their merger?

Natural equilibrium for profitable media seemingly non -profit editorial boards. They do not need to go on the cross, trying to maintain the interest of the public and the owner. Only the US has at least 475 independent outletssince Marshall project by Center for public integrityhaving won multiple Pulitzer prizes For the reporting investigation. And independent journalism now enjoys Renaissance on self -publication platforms as a mass and Recently launched noufra. These sites offer asylum for writers who refused (or refused) corporate news, including Mehdi Hassan and Matt’s Matt. The journalistic equivalent of the farm to the table, it expresses any skillful medium graves between the writer and the reader. (Nation was independent since 1865)

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However, none of these alternatives offers a real replacement for major outlets. With all their hidden prejudice, our media implements are unique to provide resources to finance perennials that often carry a legitimate reaction, such as Pentagon papers– Which may not resolve so deep with the MailChimp logo below.

Not long ago, Jeff Bezos proudly endured this torch. To create property he claimed that Katarin Graham ‘ Pugnacious Leadership as its model, and seemingly honest, even if Pillar did Go gently on its cover Amazon your own will. I survived the benign negligent of the Bezos first -mouth. From 2011 to 2022 I Ended over 500 columns For the paper most of them while staying Bezos – including in columns directly criticizing Amazon’s work practice and even corporate bias Pillar herself. I have never received any note that resembles the type of editorial restrictions that it gives today – similar to what has just led a columnist and associated editor of Ruth Marcus to resign After four decades on paper. However, for a while, at least, in this case, corporate property should not have been mutually exclusively with editorial independence.

But as long as the detachment is restored by the owners and the editorial board, the audience and the journalists will continue to flee with violations of publications. In his email to Washington PostThe team, the BAOS claimed that this newspaper could evade various prospects because “Internet does this job“You will need a new movement of responsible readers and philanthropists to make sure this is true.

The hard and chaotic second term Donald Trump is just beginning. In the first month, Trump’s office and his Like -Elon Musk (or this is the opposite?) Proved that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar without checking strength and wealth.

Only reliable independent journalism can cut the noise and offer a clear report and analysis based on principle and conscience. Thats what Nation I did 160 years, and that’s what we do now.

Our independent journalism is not Let the injustice go unnoticed or unopposed – and we will give up hope for a better world. Our Writers, editors and checks are ruthlessly working to inform you about you if so much media does not do this of credulity, fear and loyalty.

Nation saw unprecedented times earlier. We draw the strength and recommendations from our history of fundamental progressive journalism during the crisis, and we strive to continue this heritage today.

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Katrina Vanden Hievel

Editorial director and publisher, A Nation

Katrina Vanden Hievel

Katrina Vanden Hievel – Editorial Director and Publisher NationA leading source of progressive policy and culture in America. She held the post of editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.

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