Ami Fields-Meyer

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

I agree that Axios et al often miss the forest for the clicks, but here they use language of "purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition" and say Trump "threatened to eviscerate the integrity of US govt data." That is the kind of descriptive language we need more of from media

"Larry Ellison’s son, David, met with the FCC’s Carr earlier this week to get the merger ironed out, promising that CBS would embrace 'varied ideological perspectives,'" namely:

I'm old enough to remember when we changed US gov't policy to protect the Americans against explicitly these threats and laid the groundwork to ban exactly these abuses of AI and surveillance technology and WIRED ran an article headlined "Biden's AI Bill of Rights is Toothless Against Big Tech" 🤷‍♂️

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This is a tough piece

This is me almost *nine years ago* at a march on the first full day of the first Trump Administration. Astounding that I could (and maybe will) hold the same poster at today's No Kings – with the same relevance and urgency. But the fight for a true multiracial democracy continues...