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“Both potential mergers could severely harm the viewing public,” Free Press Action VP Matt Wood said while testifying in Congress.

“Over the past few years in particular, we’ve seen an explosion of interest from lawmakers who want to support local news,” said Free Press Action’s Alex Frandsen.

“Runaway consolidation eliminates choice,” Free Press Action’s Matt Wood testified. “And under the Trump administration, these deals pose tremendous danger to free expression.”

Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron hopes the end of CPB will be a start to a “fundamental rethinking” of the public media system from the ground up.

The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down — and claims that’s for the best. But there are dangers ahead.

The fight for public media’s future is a fight for democracy and against authoritarianism.

On Wednesday, a coalition of media-justice groups and labor unions petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to deny the merger of Nexstar Media Inc. with TEGNA Inc.

The FCC is taking an ax to America’s broadband rules, even as some states are stepping up.

It’s clear that media mergers now pose a dire threat to U.S. press freedom.

The Trump administration has worked to undermine the First Amendment and suppress information that the president and his supporters don’t like.