Why fascists & oligarchs are OBSESSED with controlling the media
December 16, 2025
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as posted by the channelAt a recent book launch event for the @ProjectCensored 2025 State of the Free Press report at Red Emma's Cooperative Bookstore in Baltimore, MD, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joined Movement Media Alliance partners Mickey Huff, Eleanor Goldfield, and Mischa Geracoulis on stage to break down why the rich and powerful are hellbent on owning and controlling news media orgs, social media platforms, and every other form of media they can get their hands on.
"People's feelings and politics flow downstream from the reality they believe they're living in," Alvarez says. "And media are how the powerful warp our perceptions of the reality that we believe that we're living in..."
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