Media Consolidation

On Sunday, New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu wrote on a topic that’s gone underreported: the role that local radio and television stations play in spreading lies about COVID vaccines. While Facebook and YouTube deserve a lot of the heat they’ve been getting for business models that…

It’s generally supposed that in order for a lie to be successful, it has to contain a little truth: enough milk to wash down the poison. When a lie is particularly successful — as QAnon was — to the point of threatening democracy itself, it’s in the public’s best interest…

By Nikki Usher, Ph.D. Local newspapers are the bedrock for original newsgathering in communities, but roughly 36,000 news workers have endured lost jobs, cut salaries or furloughs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the decline of local advertising revenue already disrupted by Google and Facebook. Newspaper economics are…

On April 23, with net neutrality rules set to expire, Congressman David Price held a community forum on why net neutrality is so important and what we can do to restore the Open internet principles on which the web economy has flourished. Price and the other forum participants also talked…

It’s probably not going to be like they say. They are probably not going to charge you much more for Netflix or Hulu or Amazon. You might not notice any difference at all in the way you consume media. Net Neutrality is important for content makers, not content consumers. Content…