> What’s new is the willingness of all too many media corporations to cave in so cravenly... In all three cases, Trump’s legal claims were widely seen as weak, yet the companies chose not to test them in court.
> Of course, you won’t be surprised to learn that Trump wasn’t satisfied with such groveling. He never will be. (He recently renewed pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to pull CBS News’s license.)
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
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> ..begin.. by giving less attention to Trump’s executive orders —.. defined by a law professor as “just press releases with nicer stationery” — and more attention to the effects of his policies that get enacted. And while his ruminations may bear noting, they could appear, not in headlines, but.. page 11 (or its.. equivalent), which is where the #BostonGlobe relegated its report of the local 100,000-strong #HandsOff! protest.
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
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