FCC boss Brendan Carr (with help from the courts and executive orders) is literally dismantling the ENTIRETY of U.S. broadband consumer protection, and this is how Axios frames it:
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Even The Verge, (who I generally like and write for!) kind of frames the whole thing through Carr's preferred rhetoric that all FCC telecom and media oversight is inherently clunky, bureaucratic, and unnecessary
Carr is unwinding FCC civil rights reforms, harassing companies for not being racist enough, butchering consumer protection standards and media consolidation limits, and abusing FCC power to harass companies that don't kiss trump ass
our primary sources of public information can't even describe what's happening with any consistent and courageous accuracy, it's perpetually frustrating
The uncritical parroting of the right's framing is utterly fascinating to me. Is there some shadowy cabal of editors who secretly want to sanitize the right's devolution of society? Are people just naturally parrots? How does this occur without people's eyes rolling out of their heads?
U.S. media ownership (generally) supports Republican policy (tax cuts, deregulation), and the ad engagement model and threat of liability and Republican harassment also creates a certain editorial fecklessness in a bid to not offend anybody and potentially harm engagement
I am going to guess that this is partly due to outlets being more concerned with being first to report a story they fail to bother doing any research and explaining the story in full. Easier to re-write a PR release from the GOP
Axios and Politico have been slowly bending the knee to the orangeman. Be cautious with their "news" moving forward. I don't trust Axios after their false article that tried to get Democrats to stop calling their representatives.
Fascist much?
“If Carr has his way, the decades-long rise of Fox News and other right-wing media will now be accompanied by the diminishment of plenty of moderate, centrist and liberal ones.”
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it's all framed through parroted quotes about the miracles of deregulation
the press doesn't cover this stuff accurately. I don't care what outlet we're talking about.
just...not mentioned or normalized/sanitized
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/musk-starlink-internet-white-house?fbclid=IwY2xjawJHt5hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHauBTi3cZklHjXzCIj1dCVWbFKb_JgCKUx0Z2VRtfFAqs_GxqS9HGKS9Dw_aem_ctch2RwoOsnZIOhRV0oexA
unfortunately there was nothing good faith about him, either
there is a steady throughline of bad faith bullshit that goes back to nixon
“If Carr has his way, the decades-long rise of Fox News and other right-wing media will now be accompanied by the diminishment of plenty of moderate, centrist and liberal ones.”
They are still mostly focused on topics like Biden’s age…that says it all tbh