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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has asked the FCC to block broadband funding earmarked for Frontier, saying the ISP isn’t capable of delivering gigabit-speed service.

The brief opposes the Trump FCC’s unjustified attempt to reinstate its repeal of vital broadcast-ownership limits.

Free Press’ Alicia Bell, Joseph Torres and Collette Watson – the architects of Media 2070 – discuss what lies ahead for the organization’s media-reparations project.

Critics say typical crime coverage is “racist, classist, fear-based clickbait.”

It will require pressure from grassroots movements and others to put these timely and urgent ideas on the agenda of the new administration.

“Let’s be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It’s racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.”

Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron discusses the issues his group is currently working on as the incoming Biden administration takes shape.

FCC Chairman Pai’s priority seems to be “closing the golf-course and parking-lot digital divide,” wrote Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner.

After digging into the FCC maps of the winning bidders, consumer groups like Free Press say something ugly is afoot.

From billionaire dilettantes to pension funds, profit-seeking just isn’t compatible with the media’s core democratic functions.