Gigi Sohn nom FCC
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</font></div><div><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biden's nominee to lead the Federal Communications Commission withdrew her name from consideration on Tuesday amid ongoing character assassination by right-wing media, lobbyists, and lawmakers.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gigi Sohn told The Washington Post in an exclusive interview that the "unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks" that labeled her as "extreme" and "partisan" despite her moderate résumé forced her to turn down Biden's offer.</font></span></p><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style=""><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators," Sohn said in a statement to the Post. “And with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/ted-cruz-fox-news/" target="self" title="view post: Watch: Ted Cruz lashes out at Biden nominee for referring to Fox News as propaganda" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Watch: Ted Cruz lashes out at Biden nominee for referring to Fox News as propaganda</a></font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the criticisms of Sohn were not only coming from Republicans. The <b>Post </b>noted that United States Senator Joe Manchin (D-Wet Virginia) accused Sohn of harboring "partisan alliances with far-left groups," adding that "especially now, the FCC must remain above the toxic partisanship that Americans are sick and tired of, and Ms. Sohn has clearly shown she is not the person to do that."</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post further explained that "conservative groups spent hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Sohn as partisan and extreme, leading a campaign focused in states of several moderate Democrats, who were already on the fence on Sohn's nomination. 'Gigi Sohn is too extreme for the FCC,' read one billboard in Las Vegas, plastered with Sohn's face and a link to a website for the<b> American Accountability Foundation</b>, a group that has opposed Biden's nominees. The AAF and another conservative nonprofit, the Center for a Free Economy, placed more than $200,000 in Facebook ads opposing Sohn."</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House, meanwhile, respected Sohn's decision.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"She would have brought tremendous intellect and experience," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "which is why the president nominated her in the first place."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rEAD MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gigi-sohn" target="self" title="view post: 'Infuriating': Telecom lobbyists spending big money to keep Gigi Sohn off FCC" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">'Infuriating': Telecom lobbyists spending big money to keep Gigi Sohn off FCC</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Post's full article is available <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-nomination/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">here</a> (subscription required).</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-news-team-essential-cog-corrupt-propaganda-machine">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-news-team-essential-cog-corrupt-propaganda-machine</a></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">there will be no Fox News debate for this year’s Democratic presidential primary contest. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/democratic-national-committee-rejects-fox-news-for-debates-citing-new-yorker-article/2019/03/06/a0bdf55c-402e-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?utm_term=.67c62eb93b32" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">closed the door</a> to the right-wing network on Wednesday, telling <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The Washington Post</em> that the party had rejected the network’s bid in light of the “inappropriate relationship” between Fox News and President Donald Trump that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The New Yorker</em>’s Jane Mayer documented in her <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">damning new story</a></span>. <b>Perez’s statement brought a <a href="https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/1103362496965103618" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">quick response</a> from Bill Sammon, Fox News’ senior vice president and Washington managing editor, who urged the DNC to “reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism,” from moderating a debate.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sammon’s comment is a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2009/10/13/foxs-news-programs-echo-its-opinion-shows-smear/155660" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">well-worn talking point</a> familiar to anyone who has followed the network’s public relations campaigns over the years. Fox executives and flaks are constantly telling <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/04/report-trump-has-loyalty-scale-fox-news-hosts/?utm_term=.68507239a28b" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reporters</a> and <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/fox-news-tv-advertising-upfront-america-watching-1203135697/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">advertisers</a> alike that the network simply has separate “news” and “opinion” sides like any other news outlet. In their telling, it is unfair to hold the conspiracy theories and naked bigotry of Fox’s right-wing prime-time hosts against Wallace, Baier, MacCallum, Shep Smith, and the rest of the purportedly objective news team.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Mayer’s piece is more than a dissection of Fox’s merger with the Trump White House and emergence as a propaganda tool for his administration. It also helps underscore the farcical nature of the narrative that Sammon and his fellow Fox executives use in pushing back against the network’s detractors</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Fox’s defenders view such criticism as unfounded and politically biased,” Mayer writes, noting that in response to her inquiries, “Fox’s public-relations department offers numerous examples of its reporters and talk-show hosts challenging the Administration.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This argument was <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2009/10/13/foxs-news-programs-echo-its-opinion-shows-smear/155660" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">never credible</a>, but the network’s reinvention as state TV has rendered it utterly appalling. Everyone at Fox is complicit in what the network has become.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the Fox-Trump fusion that Mayer reveals -- the total breakdown of basic journalistic standards, the endless propagation of paranoid conspiracy theories bolstering Trump, the revolving door between network and White House, the Fox hosts advising the president by day and shilling for him on air by night -- came about while Wallace and company were collecting paychecks from the network. To the extent they may have wished to halt that slide, they were obviously unable to do so.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">That's because Fox is -- by design, and to its core -- a right-wing propaganda apparatus that relies on misinformation, disinformation, and outright bigotry to promote the conservative movement and Republican Party. </span>That is its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/18/roger-ailes-professional-legacy-creating-propaganda-machine-s-hurting-america/216543" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">business model and its political project</a>. It also employs some reporters, who have little influence over the bulk of the network’s operations. The reporters may at times criticize the unwillingness of other Fox employees to follow basic media ethics, but to no avail; as Mayer points out, “many Fox News reporters were angry, and provided critical anonymous quotes to the media” after Sean Hannity appeared on stage at a Trump political rally, but Fox supported Hannity nonetheless. The network’s pro-Trump talkers provide Fox with an audience, ratings, and political heft, and so its executives will choose the Hannitys over the Wallaces every time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wallaces nonetheless play important roles -- ones that are unique in the media.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At a normal outlet, journalists report out stories and try to break news. At Fox, on-air talent who roughly adhere to journalistic standards serve a very different purpose: They provide Fox’s PR team a fig leaf to point to when critics decry the network’s vile programming. When Hannity, Tucker Carlson, or Laura Ingraham get in trouble, Fox corporate can point to the likes of Wallace or Smith “challenging the Administration” as evidence that the network is more than a right-wing fever swamp.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mayer highlights two examples of this phenomenon: Smith giving a monologue in which he “contradicted Trump’s scaremongering about immigrants,” and Wallace debunking one of the White House’s “wildly inaccurate” talking points during an interview with press secretary Sarah Sanders. Both instances <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/01/07/guess-which-cable-news-network-isnt-talking-about-chris-wallaces-interview-sarah-huckabee-sanders/222435" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">garnered media attention</a> precisely because <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=shep+smith+invasion&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS822US822&oq=shep+smith+invasion&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.3119j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">they cut against the right-wing lies and smears</a> typically seen on Fox programs with much bigger audiences.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That attention benefits Fox’s PR offensive: When clips like these go viral, they become examples the network’s team can highlight when they want to argue that Fox is not a monolithic pro-Trump apparatus. </span>Fox keeps people like Wallace and Smith on the payroll not in spite of these types of segments, but because these segments burnish the Fox brand for journalists, advertisers, politicians, and other elites who don’t watch the network’s programming on a regular basis, more than making up for the hosts’ hefty salaries.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But these deviations from Fox’s norms are ultimately hollow. </span>In effect, they are the new versions of former Fox host Megyn Kelly’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/12/megyn-kelly-turned-alex-jones-because-her-struggling-show-needs-viral-moment/216870" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“Megyn moments,”</a> bolstering the credibility of the hosts and their network, but without any broader impact on the trajectory of Fox’s programming. Smith may tell his audience that there is no immigrant “invasion,” but that doesn’t stop the network’s prime-time lineup from assuring its much larger audiences that there is one. Wallace can give Trump aides a hard time in his interviews, but those exchanges <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/01/07/guess-which-cable-news-network-isnt-talking-about-chris-wallaces-interview-sarah-huckabee-sanders/222435" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">end up going viral</a> everywhere except at Fox itself, which apparently prefers not to inform too many viewers about the administration’s false talking points.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The Washington Post</em>’s Erik Wemple <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/10/31/shepard-smith-cant-redeem-fox-news/?utm_term=.9a56ccc6dbfb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">put it</a>: “Nothing that Smith says during his Fox News program -- no matter how sick his burns on Trump might be -- neutralizes the impact of Dobbs or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or dozens of other Fox talking heads. Nothing. Episodic truth-telling about Trump doesn’t excuse fulsome conspiracy-theorizing about Trump.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Baier and, of late, MacCallum, are often included in these discussions, but they largely went unmentioned by Mayer. I find their typical inclusion in these discussions suspect. Both tend to avoid publicly criticizing their colleagues, unlike Smith and Wallace, and produce far fewer of these viral moments. Baier’s biggest story in recent years was <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/04/even-bret-baier-has-now-abandoned-bret-baiers-anonymously-sourced-fbi-report/214310" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">his quickly debunked and largely retracted report</a>, days before the 2016 election, that the FBI was conducting a “very high priority” investigation of “possible pay-for-play interaction” between Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation that would “likely” result in an indictment; more recently, he’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-news.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">breached ethical norms</a> by golfing with Trump. Meanwhile, MacCallum is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2011/05/18/foxs-straight-news-anchor-martha-maccallum-regu/179762" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">every bit as pure an ideologue</a> as anyone else on the network, using her show to claim that a border wall is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/11/30/fox-host-martha-maccallum-humanitarian-perspective-wall-what-needed/222201" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“needed”</a> to stop the immigrant <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/12/20/fox-host-pushes-trumps-position-border-wall-funding-lets-get-together-and-secure-border/222377" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“invasion”</a> and declare that <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/fox-host-martha-maccallum-dont-we-need-recognize-both-sides-have-gone-insane-these-attacks/217624" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“both sides”</a> were at fault during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/24/fox-news-interview-brett-kavanaugh-was-sham-here-are-seven-reasons-why/221436" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">among</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/04/fox-news-host-trump-s-hours-executive-time-it-sounds-lot-work/222754" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">other</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/05/23/fox-news-added-more-female-hosts-still-had-same-abortion-misinformation-problem/220255" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">misdeeds</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s also telling that the network’s PR effort consistently focuses on these sorts of moments from Fox’s journalistically inclined anchors rather than major news stories that its reporters break. That’s because the dirty secret of Fox News’ “news” team is that the “news” team doesn’t break much news.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The New York Times</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The Washington Post</span>, CNN, and a host of other news outlets have spent the last few years producing scoops at a furious, exhausting rate. What Fox scoops can you remember? Despite unparalleled access to the Trump administration and other Republican officials, the network has little to show for itself.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, the Fox “news” team provides daily fodder for the network’s right-wing stars to opine about. Their role is to fill the network’s “news” hours with reports on whatever stories conservatives are panicking over that day -<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">- <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/11/09/study-fox-spent-nearly-12-hours-pushing-uranium-one-pseudoscandal-over-last-three-weeks/218475" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Uranium One</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2014/09/16/report-foxs-benghazi-obsession-by-the-numbers/200694" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Benghazi</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/23/study-caravan-coverage-has-taken-over-news-cycle-s-exactly-what-fox-news-and-trump-wanted/221806" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">migrant caravans</a>, and the purported Justice Department <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/25/fox-goes-silent-its-secret-society-conspiracy-theory-falls-apart/219167" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy</a> against Trump among them.</span> They provide incremental stories, often sourced to Republican legislators, that advance the narratives with fresh details for the “opinion”-side hosts to freak out about[vid?]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>sammon himself is a key party to this dynamic.</b> In 2010 and 2011, this top “news”-side figure became the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+sammon+media+matters&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS822US822&ei=P-1_XKDAOObV5gK8g5C4Cw&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwjg25KP8O3gAhXmqlkKHbwBBLcQ8tMDCGk&biw=1866&bih=1007" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">subject of widespread criticism</a> after <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Media Matters</span> produced a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2011/03/29/foxs-bill-sammon-problem/178036" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">series of reports</a> showing how he had used his position to slant the network’s news coverage to the right -- including by claiming on air during the 2008 election that Barack Obama was advocating socialism, a charge he admitted he did not believe</span>. <b>Rather than firing Sammon for lying to its audience, Fox curtailed his on-air appearances but let him keep his senior job overseeing the network’s news coverage. </b>Most recently, he was the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2019/02/07/the-trailer-2020-democrats-embrace-the-green-new-deal-litmus-test/5c5af92b1b326b66eb098634/?utm_term=.bc2f3ec7dbb3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">point man</a> in Fox’s effort to get the Democratic National Committee to let the network host a presidential primary debate, an attempt that ended Wednesday when the DNC <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/democratic-national-committee-rejects-fox-news-for-debates-citing-new-yorker-article/2019/03/06/a0bdf55c-402e-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?utm_term=.f69181ef77cd" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a> that it would not partner with Fox in light of Mayer’s story.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mayer points to two cases in which Fox considered taking a big swing at a major scoop. It’s instructive to consider them as a pair. First, during the 2016 presidential campaign, a FoxNews.com reporter put together the story that Trump had had a sexual relationship with the adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels and that a payoff and nondisclosure agreement had been arranged to prevent her from detailing the affair. Second, in 2017, a second FoxNews.com reporter <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/02/fox-news-seth-rich-investigation-almost-certainly-never-coming-because-network-doesnt-actually-care/221537" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">developed a story suggesting</a> that the murdered Democratic staffer Seth Rich, rather than Russian intelligence operatives, had stolen the DNC emails that were leaked during the campaign.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The former story, which would have been damaging to Trump, never ran. The latter, which benefited his claims that he had not been helped by Russia, did. The Rich story quickly unraveled, eventually forcing Fox to issue a retraction. The network also claimed it was conducting an internal investigation, but to this date no results have materialized and no employee held accountable.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s how things work at Fox. It’s long been a propaganda outlet, and now it’s merged with the White House. It is toxic, and no number of tough Wallace interviews or Smith viral monologues can redeem it.</font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cruz outrage at gigi comment fox state tv</font></p><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/smartnews/jared-kushner-rupert-murdoch/" aria-label="Rupert Murdoch gave Jared Kushner 'confidential information' about Joe Biden’s campaign ads: court filing" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Murdoch gave Jared Kushner 'confidential information' about Joe Biden’s campaign ads: court filing</font></a></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="social-author clearfix" style="zoom: 1; margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="social-authorname rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/david-badash" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">David Badash</a> <a class="social-authorname rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/the-new-civil-rights-movement" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Civil Rights Movement</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div class="social-date" style="margin-top: 8px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span class="social-datetext" style="line-height: 1; position: relative; top: 3px; left: -3px;">February 27, 2023</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2659475947" style="zoom: 1; margin-top: 10px; line-height: 31px; display: -webkit-box; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dominion Voting Systems has filed another <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/27/business/media/dominion-fox-news.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">bombshell court document</a>, this time also around 200 pages, which provides additional damning evidence of how the company believes Fox News operated during the...</font></p></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There were fireworks on Tuesday at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Gigi Sohn, a nominee for a commissioner position on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn is no stranger to the Senate Commerce Committee as this is her<b> third hearing</b> for the position, since her initial nomination in October 2021 by President Joe Biden.</font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz took that familiarity as an opportunity to blast Sohn over<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKEV52-bfw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"> her past social media posts on Twitter.</a></font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn agreed with Cruz that the FCC has an obligation to “defend democracy,” then he used that opportunity to bring up Sohn’s past vocal opposition to Fox News.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz read a past tweet from Sohn from September 2019 that stated, “I agree with the scrutiny of big tech is essential as scrutiny of big telecom, cable and media,” Sohn’s tweet continued. <b>“And trust me, the latter have played their own role in destroying democracy and electing autocrats. Like, say Fox News?”</b></font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz then pounced on Sohn for showing partisan scrutiny in her communications.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You see why millions of people don’t think you are fair and impartial to regulate communications?” Cruz asked.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz then featured a social media post from October 2020 where Sohn described Fox News as being “state-sponsored.”</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn quickly acknowledged her wrongdoing after the post was presented.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I regretted the tone of that,” Sohn said.</font></b></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, Sohn acknowledged the close positioning the conservative news network had with former President Donald Trump.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They were very, very, very, close to the Trump administration,” said Sohn.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz countered her response by asking if MSNBC is close to the Biden Administration.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn responded, “I listen to National Public Radio, I do not watch CNN or MSNBC.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-grills-gigi-sohn/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Watch video below or at this link.</font></a></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">murdoch fuckery </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/22 demand progress</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation has cooked up a new fee to charge TV provider DirecTV — and if it goes into effect, <strong>DirecTV, DirecTV Stream, and U-Verse customers nationwide are likely to get stuck with higher prices for their cable service.<sup>1</sup></strong> Tell DirecTV: say NO to Fox’s new carriage fee!</font></p><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>we need DirecTV to stand up to Fox to save consumers from exorbitant fees</strong> because the Supreme Court has ruled cable networks like Fox fall outside of the Federal Communications Commission’s jurisdiction.<sup>2</sup> In cases like these, <strong>smaller corporations can be our ally in fighting price gouging.</strong></font></p><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>But the fact that Fox is largely insulated from the FCC hasn’t stopped Rupert Murdoch from fighting tooth and nail to sabotage this critical institution<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. </span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We haven’t had a functioning FCC for the entirety of Biden’s presidency because the Senate — pressured by Fox and Comcast — has </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">refused to confirm Biden’s nominee for FCC Chair, Gigi Sohn. <strong>Comcast and Fox News have paid for lobbyists to actively court swing votes in the Senate against Sohn.<sup>2</sup></strong></span></font></p><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News has been pushing<strong> false narratives </strong>that Gigi Sohn would harm rural America, that she wants to censor conservatives, and that she’s bad for media diversity. As telecoms reporter Karl Bode put it, “None of these are supported by any facts that you can find if you spend 30 minutes objectively researching her record.”</span><sup>2</sup></font></p><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s smear campaign makes clear: cable news will stop at nothing to clear the way for profiteering. We need TV providers to resist, and we demand the Senate get in gear! </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That's why corporate America is going all out to smear Gigi Sohn: to kill net neutrality.<sup>2</sup></font></p><p style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 1em auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and their allies want to kill the free and open internet and stick everyday Americans into an internet slow lane. They know Gigi Sohn will stop them. It's been six months since Sohn was nominated, and if we don't speak out, this corporate hit job could tank Sohn's nomination and net neutrality.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/13/maga-group-grooms-members-of-congress-and-their-staff-for-america-first-movement/">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/13/maga-group-grooms-members-of-congress-and-their-staff-for-america-first-movement/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CPI has also launched a number of spin-offs to further right-wing causes, including the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Accountability Foundation (AAF</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), America First Legal, Center for Renewing America, American Cornerstone Institute, American Moment, and the State Freedom Caucus Network.</span></b></span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">
</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">Staffers Coached in Conservative Oversight</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">From May 5–6, seven House Republican staffers and three Senate Republican staffers attended an Effective Oversight Training Retreat paid for by AAF and led by CPI, AAF, and the Heritage Foundation—all ostensibly nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organizations.</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">
</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">Attendees participated in six training sessions, according to an agenda obtained by CMD, including on “how to work with legal experts to leverage research and advance conservative priorities in the courts,” “working with outside groups involved in oversight,” and <b>“how to conduct effect research into Presidential appointees and nominees” to “help congressional staff perform proper oversight.”</b></span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The latter session was led by AAF’s founder Tom Jones, who is credited with leading GOP opposition to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation </b>and for sinking the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin for vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, among others.</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AAF runs the website bidennoms.com, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which currently features opposition campaigns against Phillip Washington for administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA);</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Gigi B. Sohn to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">; Kalpana Kotagal to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); and Dilawar Syed for deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA).</span></span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kotagal appears to be a top target of AAF, prompting it to create the separate website kalpanakotagal.com, where she is labeled a “radical leftist” who is “poised to weaponize the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with an <b>anti-American agenda.”</b></span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;">SCREENSHOT FROM WWW.KALPANAKOTAGAL.COM</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;"><b>Kotagal is actually an accomplished employment and civil rights plaintiffs’ litigator, perhaps best known for co-authoring the “Inclusion Rider,” a contract provision in Hollywood designed to increase diversity in casting and production staff.</b></span></font></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="word-spacing: 3.6px;"><b>In addition to staffers from CPI, AAF, and Heritage, others from the right-wing Capital Research Center, the Republican Study Committee, and Compass Legal also led training sessions.</b> CPI launched Compass Legal to take “care of things like legal filings” and help nonprofits “to comply with federal tax law so they can keep their nonprofit status,” according to its 2021 Annual Report.</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">thehill</font></div><div><div class="articletext | body-copy | flow" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 65ch; line-height: 1.56375rem; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">republicans pushed back on <span data-nid="5215" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">President Biden’s</a></span> nominee to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), <span data-nid="19463" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/gigi-sohn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">Gigi Sohn</a></span>, at a Senate Commerce Committee</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> hearing Wednesday </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">over past comments she’s made regarding conservative media — resistance that could put her nomination in danger.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“All who know her would agree she is knowledgeable and a determined advocate,” ranking member <span data-nid="17887" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/roger-wicker/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">Roger Wicker</a></span> (R-Miss.) said in his opening statement about Sohn. “I am concerned about her record of expressing hyper-partisan views on many critical matters that have come before the commission and which may come before the commission again in the future.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the past, Biden’s nominees to other critical roles overseeing aspects of the tech industry, including <b>Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman <span data-nid="105029" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/lina-khan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">Lina Khan</a></span> and Justice Department antitrust division head Jonathan Katner, have been confirmed without significant backlash from the GOP.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Senate Commerce Committee advanced acting FCC Chairwoman <span data-nid="23149" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/jessica-rosenworcel/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">Jessica Rosenworcel’s</a></span> nomination by a voice vote with just a handful of Republicans recording themselves as a “no” toward her nomination</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The committee also voted <b>14-14 Wednesday to advance Biden’s nominee to fill an open FTC seat, Alvaro Bedoya, </b>to a full Senate vote.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The GOP resistance to Sohn could throw a wrench into her nomination and Democrats’ ability to secure a majority on the board. It would also hinder Rosenworcel’s ability to get Democrats’ agenda through, including<b> reviving Obama-era net neutrality laws.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The FCC is split 2-2 along party lines until the vacant seat is filled.</b></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Democrats could overcome all Republicans voting against Sohn, but could not afford any defections to approve her nomination.</font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sohn has a history of advocating for open and affordable communications networks.</b> She is a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate. Between 2003 and 2016, Sohn served as a counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If confirmed, she would also be the first openly LGBTQ commissioner in the history of the agency.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“I’ve been asked why after a long career I would want a seat on the FCC. My answer is simple — if confirmed I would be serving on the commission at a critical time for our country.</b> Thanks to the work of Congress over the past year, there are ample resources and bipartisan support to make enormous progress in<b> closing the digital divide in both rural and urban areas</b>,” Sohn said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It would be the honor of a lifetime to help the FCC and Congress attain that goal,” she added.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans on the panel, however, pressed Sohn over comments she made during her years in public advocacy.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen. <span data-nid="21993" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popoverlink" href="https://thehill.com/people/dan-sullivan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); z-index: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;">Dan Sullivan</a></span> (R-Alaska) asked Sohn about comments she made in the past about Fox News, including a tweet from last year where she called Fox News “state-sponsored propaganda.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“For all my concerns about #Facebook, I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy. It’s state-sponsored propaganda, with few if any opposing viewpoints. Where’s the hearing about that?” she tweeted at the time.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This goes directly to the power you’re going to have, this is not some kind of random tweet,” Sullivan said. “You are clearly indicating your bias against more conservative news sources, and yet you are now up for confirmation at one of the most powerful positions in America on free speech? I think that disqualifies you completely,” he added.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn responded that the comments she tweeted were made in the context of a hearing that took place about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision which provides a liability shield for tech companies over content posted on their sites by third parties.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans at the time claimed that social media companies censor with an anticonservative bias.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As a public interest advocate, as part of my job, those were my words, those were my opinions, but they would have no bearing on how I would act if I was confirmed as an FCC commissioner,” Sohn said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sohn told the panel she is working with the Office of Government Ethics, adding that if there are concerns about bias, she will consult with the agency to see if she needs to recuse herself from any matters should she be confirmed as commissioner.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The opposition from the GOP comes after Republican lawmakers indicated in recent weeks that they were unhappy with Sohn’s nomination.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Outside of the Senate, Sohn’s support — or lack thereof — has been a mixed bag from both parties.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republicans have criticized her past comments about Fox News, but conservative networks like Newsmax and One America News Network have thrown their support behind the Biden nominee.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Freedom of speech is the lifeblood of our American experience and has always been at the core of my work. I am proud that some of the most conservative television networks are supporting my confirmation, because I worked with them for years to get access to cable subscribers after operators refused to carry them. I have also worked with communities of color and the LGBTQ-plus community to ensure access to their voices on different platforms without interference. I’ve always believed that democracy works best when voices of all kinds can speak and be heard,” Sohn said during the hearing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Meanwhile, the League of United Latin American Citizens <b>(LULAC) </b>sent a letter to top Commerce Committee senators urging them to oppose Sohn’s nomination over her past actions the group said supported large technology companies in ways that harmed hundreds of small, independent, Latino-owned media companies.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For their part, Democrats on the panel lauded Sohn’s career and expertise in the area to fill the role on the commission.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“She has a decade long of experience as advocating on important telecommunications policies,” committee Chairwoman <span data-nid="16271" class="person-popover" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</div><div>Dear Committee Chair Cantwell and Ranking Member Wicker:</div><div>We write on behalf of the members of the League of United Latin American Citizens</div><div>(LULAC) to oppose the nomination of Gigi Sohn to be a commissioner on the U.S.</div><div>Federal Communications Commission (FCC).</div><div>
</div><div>Ms. Sohn’s past actions have supported large technology companies in ways that have</div><div>hindered small, independent Latino-owned media companies and has jeopardized</div><div>Latino content creators. In addition, these actions have had the effect of erecting</div><div>unnecessary barriers to entry to capital markets for Latino-owned businesses.</div><div>While Ms. Sohn manages her public image as a proponent of net neutrality, during her</div><div>tenure as a senior advisor to the FCC, her counsel did not support nor advance Latino</div><div>or minority ownership in the media landscape.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Additionally, we are concerned by the eager public support by some extremist</b></div><div><b>conservative media platforms who have endorsed Ms. Sohn’s nominatio</b>n and whose</div><div>support she has yet to publicly reject. While we support the First Amendment as a civil</div><div>rights organization, Ms. Sohn’s position as a defender of First Amendment rights is</div><div>being seen by proponents of the January 6 insurrection as supporting the kinds of</div><div>disinformation that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">fueled the attacks on our nation’s Capitol, impacted the 2020</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">presidential elections, and have promoted Spanish-language disinformation about the</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">COVID-19 vaccinations</span>, including the use of social media platforms to promulgate the</div><div>same.</div><div>For these reasons, we urge you to oppose the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC.</div><div>Please contact us at Policy@LULAC.org should you have follow-up questions</div><div>
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</div><div>Julia Conley and Common Dreams May 01, 2022</div><div> </div><div>Consumer rights defenders are warning that telecom companies and lobbyists are taking advantage of the U.S. Senate's delay in confirming Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to pressure corporate Democrats to vote against the longtime public advocate.</div><div>
</div><div>"There's an unseemly amount of money being spent to promote disinformation about her," Greg Guice, director of government affairs for Public Knowledge, the group founded by Sohn, told MarketWatch this week. "These criticisms aren't based in fact whatsoever."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>As Karl Bode wrote at Techdirt last week, former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's rural-focused non-profit group recently launched a $250,000 social media ad campaign targeting at least two Democrats who have not yet confirmed how they plan to vote on Sohn's confirmation</b>, even though it would give the party three of the five FCC seats for the first time in six years and would end the current deadlock.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The group's ads are aimed at Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.)</b>, neither of whom have indicated how they will vote on Sohn's nomination and both of whom are facing reelection campaigns in November.<b> Politico has reported that Heitkamp is also running ads in West Virginia, where right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was "undecided" on Sohn after meeting her.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heitkamp's group, the One Country Project, is claiming that Sohn has been insufficiently committed to improving broadband access in rural communities, pointing to congressional testimony in which she said Congress has been "disproportionately focused on broadband deployment in rural areas."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>As Chris Matthews wrote at MarketWatch, Sohn's testimony didn't "argue that the federal government shouldn't fund broadband deployment, but that the main hurdle for Americans accessing broadband in both rural and urban areas is affordability, not infrastructure."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Heitkamp started One Country Project with "leftover campaign cash</b>" to start her political action committee, Matthews noted, and counted<b> AT&T and Comcast</b> as two of her biggest donors when she was in the Senate.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>"Telecom monopolies are now terrified that the Sohn appointment won't just break 2-2 commissioner gridlock (they created) at the agency, it will mean the restoration of meaningful federal oversight over one of the least popular and least competitive industries in the Internet ecosystem</b>," wrote Bode at Techdirt.</div><div>
</div><div>Andrew Lokay, an analyst with independent policy research firm Beacon Policy Advisors, told MarketWatch that opponents of Sohn in the telecom industry appear to be "taking advantage of Biden's delay in nominating Sohn and the crowded Senate calendar in an attempt to sink her nomination."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Craig Aaron, president of media and technology advocacy group Free Press, accused the telecom industry and its allies of waging a "dishonest astroturf campaign" against Sohn and called the effort to derail the nomination of a strong net neutrality defender "infuriating.</b>"</div><div>
</div><div>In addition to One Country Project's efforts, the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)—which has long partnered with AT&T</span>—published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star earlier this month <b>accusing Sohn of having a "deeply problematic track record on media diversity issues."</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group wrote that as a senior staffer at the FCC, Sohn "masterminded a plan to give Google a government permission slip to steal, repackage and monetize TV programming without paying one cent to its creators"—a move which angered "diverse creators" and lawmakers over "how her proposal would impact vulnerable, underrepresented communities."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In fact, Bode wrote, "the FCC's goal was to kill the cable box monopoly and save consumers about $20 billion annually in bullshit rental fees," adding that "framing it as a handout to 'big tech' is an intentional misrepresentation."</span></div><div>
</div><div>LULAC denied to MarketWatch that its opposition to Sohn has anything to do with its relationship with AT&T, and the company said it has not donated any money directly to One Country Project.</div><div>
</div><div>But as Bode argued, "Sohn's so popular, and the goals of telecom monopolies (less competition, more revenue, no oversight) are so viciously unpopular, they've been forced to fabricate flimsy complaints and <b>funnel them through proxy organizations</b> in a bid to derail the popular nomination."</div><div>
</div><div>"If Sohn's nomination is scuttled, it will come at the hands of Senators Joe Manchin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), or Mark Kelly, who will, not coincidentally, parrot the false justifications for opposing Sohn's nomination concocted by the telecom lobby," Bode added.</div><div>
</div><div><b>"It will leave a permanent and violent scar on the political and policy landscape,</b>" he added, "loudly advertising once again that the voice of the public (which overwhelmingly supports holding telecom and media giants meaningfully accountable) simply doesn't matter in our purported democracy."</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>February 1, 2022</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dear Madam Chairman and Senator Wicker,</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We represent fiscal conservatives, free market advocates, and millions of American taxpayers across the</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">country who oppose the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Her initial</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">nomination was allowed to expire at the end of December 2021 for good reason: her ethics and personal</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">biases. Under her leadership, America’s communications would undoubtedly be subject to censorship and</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">decisions which threaten the basic principles of the American free press.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sohn has repeatedly called on the shuttering of conservative networks, going as far as calling Fox News,</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“state-sponsored propaganda.</span>” Then as the New York Post faced suspension for their reporting on Hunter</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Biden, she publicly claimed, “anti-conservative bias on online platforms … is a bunch of BS.” This is not how</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">our nation’s top regulatory officials should conduct themselves.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The FCC is supposed to be an independent agency of the U.S. federal government, and Sohn’s repeated public</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>remarks demonstrate she is anything but neutral.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We agree with your concern regarding Sohn’s involvement with Locast streaming services, and the possibility</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">of her future financial liability to several companies regulated by the FCC. Even the National Association of</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Broadcasters publicly noted, “the ethics agreement that Ms. Sohn submitted to the Senate currently does not</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">adequately address the inherent conflict presented by her recent leadership position at Locast and her</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">potential role as an FCC commissioner.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s more concerning is that even after you – and others – raised issue with Sohn’s potential conflict, she</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">still proceeded with a sweetheart settlement involving the very broadcasters she would regulate if approved.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is proving a pattern of questionable ethics and decision-making.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Maria E. Cantwell</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Committee on Commerce, Science and</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Transportation</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">United States Senate</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Washington, D.C. 20510</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Roger F. Wicker</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Committee on Commerce, Science and</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Transportation</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">United States Senate</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Washington, D.C. 20510</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The FCC is the enforcer of American media and allowing someone with extreme public biases and conflicts of</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">interest to oversee this vital agency is a threat to our country’s basic principles of freedom. Americans deserve</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">better.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We strongly urge you to reject Sohn’s nomination to the FCC and hold our regulators to the highest standard.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sincerely,</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Center for a Free Economy</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Americans for Tax Reform</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">60 Plus Association</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Commitment</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Individual Freedom</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Citizen Outreach</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Conservatives for Property Rights</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Consumer Action for a Strong Economy</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Institute for Liberty</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Less Government</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Market Institute</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Independent Women’s Voice</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Eagle Forum</b></font></p><p /><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ggl 3 23</font></p><div class="MjjYud" style=""><div jscontroller="SC7lYd" class="g Ww4FFb vt6azd tF2Cxc asEBEc" lang="en" jsaction="QyLbLe:OMITjf;ewaord:qsYrDe;xd28Mb:A6j43c" data-hveid="CBUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjw7OOXj839AhUBk2oFHVorDF8QFSgAegQIFRAA" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; border-radius: 0px;"><div class="kvH3mc BToiNc UK95Uc" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_Edqk4b" style="position: relative; contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: start; justify-content: start;"><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" data-sokoban-feature="x5WNvb" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.58;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Federal spending/GDP is higher than normal and will keep growing through this century, faster than inflation and <span style="font-weight: bold;">economic</span> growth.</div></div><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc" data-content-feature="2" data-sokoban-feature="oyZ5Hb" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="TXwUJf" style="">Missing: <s>gigi</s> | Must include: <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=center+for+free+economy+%22gigi%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw7OOXj839AhUBk2oFHVorDF8Q5t4CegQIKxAB" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">gigi</a></div></div><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc" data-sokoban-feature="bvRFlf" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex: 0 0 auto;" /><div class="MjjYud" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div jscontroller="SC7lYd" class="g Ww4FFb vt6azd tF2Cxc asEBEc" lang="en" jsaction="QyLbLe:OMITjf;ewaord:qsYrDe;xd28Mb:A6j43c" data-hveid="CCMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjw7OOXj839AhUBk2oFHVorDF8QFSgAegQIIxAA" style="line-height: 1.58; 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