#StephenColbert’s top-rated late-night TV program goes off the air for the final time Thursday, effectively silencing a high-profile #Trump critic.
“The legacy of this show needs to be that we remember it as the show that was canceled because a presidential administration wanted it off the air,” says Heather Hendershot, a professor of #communication studies & #journalism at Northwestern University.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #authoritarianism
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Even if neither #SteveBannon, nor #PeterHegseth, nor the #OrangePeril had a direct hand in this, the strategy is clear:
The #Fascist seizure of control as set out in #Project2025 is progressing. The point at issue here is to
#ControlTheNarrative.
#Trump has r
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Even if neither #SteveBannon, nor #PeterHegseth, nor the #OrangePeril had a direct hand in this, the strategy is clear:
The #Fascist seizure of control as set out in #Project2025 is progressing. The point at issue here is to
#ControlTheNarrative.
#Trump has regulary been discriminating against critical journalists, has even revoked #Press...
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...licenses to the #WhiteHouse. #Hegseth has already hinted several times that he expects more pro-American stances in the press.
When will they be able to move towards a #Goebbels-style complete #Backgrounders (#Presseunterichtung), or even a NS-styled "Schriftleitergesetz" 1), which determined which journalists were still allowed to work? Even though #Project2025 foreshadowed many actions (originally a #Nazi term in German, as I researched 2day),...
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...nobody could have forseen the #Chainsaw implementation of #DataRaids throughout #US government agencies in 2025.
Nothing seems to be off limits anymore.
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1) NS-Schrifleitergesetz (German)
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Presse im Nationalsozialismus: Im Dienste des Regimes
Christian Walther (taz)