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Nation’s Largest Broadcaster Mandates News Outlets Hoax Viewers to Help Gut FCC Rules: ‘BradCast’ 4/23/2025

Guest: Media activist Sue Wilson; Also: Judge orders VOA restored; '60 Minutes' chief quits over Trump-pressured corporate meddling...

  • , 4/23/2025 - 
  • 7:00 pm PT
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Trump’s FCC on Precipice of Ending All Limits on Corporate Control of Local TV News Stations

Nation's largest broadcaster orders all of its TV newsrooms to run deceptive deregulatory campaign as 'news'. But you can push back!...

  • , 4/23/2025 - 
  • 6:35 am PT
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Trump Weaponizing FCC Against Free Press: ‘BradCast’ 1/23/2025

Guest: John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge; Also: Migrant worker round-up begins in CA; Judge blocks Trump order to end birthright citizenship...

  • , 1/23/2025 - 
  • 6:12 pm PT
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Former Federal Prosecutor: Trump Must Be Sentenced in NY Before Taking Office Again: ‘BradCast’ 11/20/2024

Guest: GWU Law School's Randall D. Eliason, former chief of DOJ's Fraud and Public Corruption section; Also: House Republicans cover for Gaetz; Trump's FCC pick threatens censorship of public airwaves...

  • , 11/20/2024 - 
  • 6:40 pm PT
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How Reagan’s Veto Gave Birth to Today’s Mendacious Right-Wing Media Echo Chamber

And how the Fairness Doctrine, extended to cable, could have prevented Jan. 6 and the threat to democracy's survival...

  • , 5/12/2023 - 
  • 10:05 am PT
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Tell the FCC To Protect Our Public Airwaves From Dangerous, Convicted Hoaxster Alex Jones: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2022

Guest: Sue Wilson of Media Action Center; Also: DoJ recommend six months for Bannon; Rightwing '2000 Mules' fraudsters face FBI, IRS referrals from AZ's GOP A.G.; And, Could Grassley actually lose in IA?!...

  • , 10/17/2022 - 
  • 6:55 pm PT
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Why is Alex Jones Still on Our Public Airwaves?

Parents of Sandy Hook victims awarded $965M in second trial against radio hoaxster, but FCC has taken no action against his broadcast lies...

  • , 10/14/2022 - 
  • 11:00 am PT
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The SCOTUS-Approved, FCC Ownership Rule Catch-22: ‘BradCast’ 4/12/2021

Guest: Sue Wilson of the Media Action Center; Also: More news from vaccination nation; More corporate pushback against vote suppression...

  • , 4/12/2021 - 
  • 6:42 pm PT
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SCOTUS Approves FCC Rule Allowing Further Consolidation of Local Media Outlets

Under Trump, the federal agency created a Catch-22 on new rule by requiring private research to counter hidden public data...

  • , 4/12/2021 - 
  • 9:35 am PT
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Republican Attorney Charges FCC Letting Sinclair Violate Ownership Rules with Sham Companies: ‘BradCast’ 9/25/2020

Guest: Attorney, former FCC official Art Belendiuk and media reformer Sue Wilson; Also: FBI Director says no evidence of widespread ballot fraud; Federal Judge orders Census to continue until completed...

  • , 9/25/2020 - 
  • 7:01 pm PT
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Why Does the FCC Allow Sinclair Broadcasting to Violate Station Ownership Rules in Baltimore?

An investigation of FCC, SEC documents in a citizen-filed 'Petition to Deny' licensing for three stations controlled by the media behemoth may finally help put an end to the 'sham' control of our public airwaves...

  • , 9/23/2020 - 
  • 11:03 am PT
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Impeachment by Radio

The elephant in the room is not the GOP...

  • , 2/14/2020 - 
  • 11:15 am PT
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Begging for Reform: Even Facebook Employees Now Want Zuckerberg to Block False Political Ads: ‘BradCast’ 10/30/2019

Guest: Media reformer Sue Wilson; Also: Preemptive blackouts threaten CA elections; GOP tries denial as impeachment defense; Trump Campaign has bought 69,000 Facebook ads since May...

  • , 10/30/2019 - 
  • 6:24 pm PT
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Fakebook: Zuckerberg’s Hands-Off Political Ad Policy Undermines American Democracy Itself

$10 billion should buy a lot of fact-checking on his social media platform. Instead it empowers the fake news he claims to oppose...

  • , 10/25/2019 - 
  • 9:35 am PT
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Every. Single. Vote. Matters.: ‘BradCast’ 11/30/18

One vote contest in KY; One 'mystery ballot' could determine control of AK House; New GA lawsuit before Tuesday's runoff; More on the GOP Election Fraud case in NC's 9th Cong. District; Also: Media Matters' Pam Vogel on Sinclair's latest offensive abuse of our public airwaves...

  • , 11/30/2018 - 
  • 6:56 pm PT
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