The presidential election has been looming overhead for ages now, and cable-news coverage of the candidates has been a mess of “he said, she said,” horse-race “analysis” — and racist commentary.
Earlier this week, on the CNN show New Day, Houck claimed that Black people are “prone to criminality.” This is a flat-out lie, yet anchor Chris Cuomo did little to question or negate Houck’s racist assertion.
Free Press and our allies stopped by the FCC on Thursday morning to deliver more than 300,000 comments calling on the agency to block the Charter-Time Warner Cable merger.
To push massive mergers through, companies make it sound like their deals will be in the public interest — and in the best interests of marginalized communities.
