The FCC As Weapon of MAGA Destruction

Using its power over mergers, the agency struck two targets — CBS and freedom

One of the largest mergers in media history was approved Thursday by the FCC — an $8 billion marriage between Paramount and Skydance Media.

This was epic not as a business story but as a broadside against democracy. The agency established in 1934 as an independent honest broker was deployed as a weapon of domestic war by President Donald Trump.

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