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Journalism can serve as civic infrastructure, rooted in mutual respect and responsive to community needs.

FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington wants to exploit a real problem and leverage it to push a fake solution favorable to Republican-friendly local broadcasters.

Trump wants to follow the example of dictators he admires — like Putin, Erdogan and Orban — who have taken over their media and turned their press into a propaganda organ.

A law Congress passed in 1988 explicitly bars the president from being able to regulate the import and export of films, books and music.

Trump’s dangerous assault on public media could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country.

Experts argue Trump’s attempt to dismantle public media exceeds the powers of his office and will most likely hurt the states that put him into that office in the first place.

Public broadcasting outlets are calling Trump’s executive order “blatantly unlawful” and they plan to fight the order.

Trump’s unhinged attack on public media shows why our democracy is on life support.

Carr is intent on making an end-run around long-established rules, all to deliver more political favors to a president for whom legal procedures mean nothing.

From banning reporters from the Oval Office to trying to dismantle Voice of America, Trump’s moves against the press have experts warning that U.S. democracy itself is threatened.