Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler Tone
“[T]he Paramount settlement provides only a small window into a larger attempt — on the part of the president and his administration — to transform the relationship between the government and America’s media industry, powered by the machinery of the FCC. It’s an extortion regime much bigger than any one-time cash grab, enveloping the media industry in a cloud of weaponized uncertainty created by lawsuits, selective regulatory investigations, and slow-walked merger approvals. The ultimate aim? Getting some of America’s largest media companies to bend the knee and do the administration’s bidding. Call it the extortion-industrial complex, and Paramount has been just one victim of it.” (07/30/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/inside-trump-administrations-extortion-industrial-complex