It appears that Democratic activists will win a key battle, by forcing the Nevada Democratic Party to reconsider allowing Fox News to host a Democratic presidential primary debate. Matt Stoller has some thoughts on how progressive activists are fighting to retake the media.
Media is now a core part of politics for Democratic activists. We are now finally recognizing the power of information, and that putting 'the facts out there' represents a core set of values that must be defended. To contextualize this, the Iraq war really created the mass basis for a media reform movement that had been simmering since the 1970s. When progressives finally realized that the lack of debate in the press had led to the strategic and moral error of Iraq, a mass movement began to organize against powerful interests. That's where the net neutrality fight, among others, came from. It's also where the grassroots pressure to not ratify Fox News as a legitimate news source is coming from.
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