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Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias (arstechnica.com)

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Who had "Freedom of Press" as one of the first pillars to fall?

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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They learned from Hungary, that in democracy if you control media, you control how people vote.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago

I mean the US was already about 70% there, much farther than almost every other Western country..

Not that the remaining 30% isn't CRUCIAL, mind you, but let's not pretend that nothing was wrong with just about every aspect of the US political system before Trump et al took it to 11..