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August 5, 2025
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_ No future for TV...? _

, Ruben Bolling

 

* CPB Gets the Ax
* Big Tech Under Legal Fire
* The Democrat at the FCC
* Working at a Tech Co-op
* The Grasp of Palantir
* ADL Backs Clampdown on Social Media
* Corporate Media Flim Flam Progressive Candidates
* The End of Television?
* Bro-casting
* That Was the Show That Was

CPB GETS THE AX
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By Nick Popli
Time

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it
would begin winding down its operations after President Donald Trump
rescinded $1.1 billion in funding for the nonprofit, which for decades
has helped sustain NPR, PBS, and hundreds of local public media
stations across the country.

BIG TECH UNDER LEGAL FIRE
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By Rob Larson
Jacobin 

After Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the Big Tech firms
continue to be battered by antitrust lawsuits stemming from prior
administrations. The cases could even lead to the forced breakup of
some of the tech giants.

THE DEMOCRAT AT THE FCC
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By Liam Scott
Columbia Journalism Review

As the FCC’s sole Democrat, Anna Gomez has been outspoken about
protecting the First Amendment. She told an interviewer that she
never thought she’d see the FCC “so willingly cede its
independence to this administration and allow itself to be turned into
an instrument of censorship and political retaliation.” Every
morning before work, she checks her email to see if she’s been
fired.

WORKING AT A TECH CO-OP
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By Catalyst Cooperative
Grassroots Economic Organizing

Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker
cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with
the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. We filmed
this interview to help researchers or coop-curious individuals learn
more about what it's like working at a tech cooperative.

THE GRASP OF PALANTIR
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By Makena Kelly
Wired

The Trump administration has dramatically expanded its work with
Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as
the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive
contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors
like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged
ahead. 

ADL BACKS CLAMPDOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Stephen Prager 
Common Dreams

Free speech advocates are raising concerns that a new bipartisan bill
would force social media companies to censor criticism of Israel on
their platforms. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Don Bacon (R-NE)
rolled out the bill, alongside Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

CORPORATE MEDIA FLIM FLAM PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES
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By Sam Rosenthal
Common Dreams

The _Times_’ repeated attempts to twist reality to fit a narrative
depicting the collapse of progressive politics is evidence that just
the opposite is true: Once again, progressive policies and candidates
are on a roll. Grijalva and Mamdani’s wins put the lie to an
oft-circulated idea that progressive policy can only win in young,
urban areas.

THE END OF TELEVISION?
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By David Dayen
The American Prospect

Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America
affirmatively _is_ going extinct, and practically nobody has
reckoned with the implications of that.

BRO-CASTING
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By Jackson Katz
Ms.

The Trump team’s decision to have the candidate appear on numerous
“brocasts” with popular hosts who have large, predominantly young
male audiences had paid off handsomely. They intuited, in ways the
Democrats are only now beginning to understand, that if politicians
want to win young men’s votes, they need to enter those spaces and
appear authentic and relatable.

THAT WAS THE SHOW THAT WAS
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By Patrick Murfin
Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout

Long ago before there was a Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert show,
even before there was a Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, there was a
little thing on TV called _That Was the Week That Was_ which
brought political satire and cutting edge social commentary into the
unsuspecting and unprepared living rooms of millions.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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* NPR
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* PBS
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* Big Tech
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* FCC
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* Anna Gomez
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* Catalyst Cooperative
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* Palantir
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* Anti-Defamation League
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* social media
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* corporate media
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* Electoral Politics
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* television
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* brocasts
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* That Was the Week That Was
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