How the powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media and 'Murder the Truth'

Trump FCC Prepares To Destroy Whatever’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits

During Trump 1.0, his captured FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, trampling smaller (and more diversely owned) competitors underfoot. The result has been a rise in local news deserts and…

Trump Makes Stunning Statement Regarding MSNBC And CNN Networks

DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in March 2025 Donald Trump has never been a fan of the media, especially outlets that report negatively on him. On Friday, he appeared to threaten two major news networks. In speaking to the press in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump criticized CNN and MSNBC. “You know, we really need honest journalism, and we don’t have,” the president said. “When you have a CNN- you have to watch these people every o…

CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Thomas Knapp: Will The Courts Protect Us? A Ghost Story - LaGrange Daily News

Since Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration on January 20, the news cycle keeps coming back around to two questions. Every time Trump issues, or federal agencies attempt to implement, an unconstitutional executive order — one or both of which happen on a near-daily basis — journalists and pundits want to know: First, will the courts order a halt to the executive branch’s latest roughshod running over of the US Constitution? Second, if …

Even when he was a private citizen, Donald Trump filed numerous lawsuits. Now he is doing so as president, with the full weight of the state behind him, says lawyer Susan Seager. "This is pure vengefulness."

How the powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media and 'Murder the Truth'

President Trump is no fan of the free press. But he's not the only powerful person in the U.S. using the courts to silence unfavorable coverage, a New York Times editor and author tells NPR.

Dr. Gadi Taub responded to a defamation lawsuit against him filed by Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Ronen Bergman, saying that it was a lawsuit intended to silence him: "People who talk down those they are supposed to be covering." The post Taub on the lawsuit: The Israeli press is corrupt, Bergman is the expression appeared first on srugim.