Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - Press Freedom and Media Capitulation; Public health; Elections

Guest: Timothy Karr, Senior Director, Free Press.net
Original airdate 8-6-2025. The nation's founders protected a free press in the Constitution as a bulwark against monarchs and tyrants. But Donald Trump and Republicans have launched unprecedented attacks on press freedom, and corporate media has largely capitulated. TIMOTHY KARR of Free Press explains the chilling state of our formerly free press in his new report, 'A More Perfect Media: Saving America’s Fourth Estate from Billionaires, Broligarchy and Trump,' their Media Capitulation Index, and much more. Anti-vaccine activist HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is ending federal development of new, groundbreaking mRNA vaccines. State elections this week offer some hopeful news for democracy.