The Latest Corporate Media and Telecom Trend? Caving to Trump

Pedestrians walk past the boarded up T Mobile store on S. Broadway after days of immigration protests in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025.

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In the Trump 2.0 era, media conglomerates aren’t just reporting news but making it as well—and for all of the wrong reasons.

I Covered the Intifada. It’s Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against Jews.

Meet the Press host Kristen Welker (6/29/25) showed courage by interviewing Zohran Mamdani, the winner of the Democratic mayoral primary for New York, after he’d been widely attacked by corporate media. But unfortunately, she fell into a trap that has been set repeatedly in recent months to smear Mamdani.

Massive Expansion of Trump’s Deportation Machine Passes With Little Press Notice

And so it has come to pass: US President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has set the stage for tax cuts for the rich, slashed services for the poor, and a host of other things that qualify as “beautiful” in the present dystopia. Some cuts, like those to Medicaid, have been heavily covered by the corporate media.