ICE isn’t just targeting immigrants — it’s targeting journalists reporting on them.
From FCC investigations to courtroom harassment and threats of prosecution, press freedom is under attack.
Watch FPF Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus explain:
The good news: Tom Hayden’s public records-based citizen journalism made a real impact in his Evanston, Illinois,-community.
The bad: The personal toll of being an unpaid reporter covering politically heated stories caused him to give it up.
“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/
We, represented by American Oversight, filed a FOIA suit against the DOJ for withholding a memo about the Trump admin’s acceptance of $400 million Qatari jet.
“It shouldn’t take 620 days to release a single, time-sensitive document,” Lauren Harper said.
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“People can’t trust a news outlet that is bribing the same officials it’s supposed to hold accountable,” Seth Stern told CJR about Paramount's capitulation to Trump.
