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NYT: Trump Picks R.F.K. Jr. to Be Head of Health and Human Services Dept.

New York Times (11/14/24 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: If "some people believe it" were the criterion, our daily news would be full of respectful consideration of the Earth’s flatness, the relationship of intelligence to the bumps on your head, and how stepping on a crack might break your mother’s back. News media don’t, in fact, use "some people think it’s true" as the threshold for whether a notion gets talked about seriously, gets "balanced" alongside what "data suggest." It’s about power.

Look no further than Robert Kennedy Jr. When he was just a famously named man about town, we heard about how he dumped a bear carcass ([link removed]) in Central Park for fun, believes that children's gender is shaped by chemicals in the water ([link removed]) , and asserts ([link removed]) that Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while leaving “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” immune.

But once you become RFK Jr., secretary of health and human services in a White House whose anger must not be drawn, those previously unacceptable ideas become, as a recent New York Times piece ([link removed]) has it, “unorthodox.”

Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle. We hear from Dr. Paul Offit ([link removed]) , director of the Vaccine Education Center ([link removed]) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about that.

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Free Press: How FCC Chairman Carr Has Fueled Trump's Authoritarian Takeover

Free Press (3/18/25 ([link removed]) )

Also on the show: For many years, social justice advocates rather discounted the Federal Communications Commission. Unlike the Federal Trade Commission or the Food and Drug Administration, whose actions had visible impacts on your life, the FCC didn’t seem like a player.

That changed over recent years, as we’ve seen the role the federal government plays in regulating the power of media corporations to control the flow of information. As the late, great media scholar Bob McChesney ([link removed]) explained ([link removed]) , “When the government grants free monopoly rights to TV spectrum...it is not setting the terms of competition; it is picking the winner.”

We’ll talk about the FCC under Trump ([link removed]) with Jessica González ([link removed]) , co-CEO of the group McChesney co-founded, Free Press ([link removed]) .

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