I’ll be presenting a paper, “The Case for Media Reparations,” at this conference. Excited to be in convo with panelists.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

This is extortion and censorship. Brendan Carr is turning into a mob boss: “the easy way or the hard way,” really?

What about the American way? The constitutional way?

Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.

What does the CPB closure mean for the future of public media? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has long helped sustain public media stations, announced it will shut down after losing $1.1 billion in federal funding.

I was on @kalwradio.bsky.social today to discuss how publicly funding public media is a racial justice issue. The full episode is dedicated to understanding CPB’s closure and well worth a listen. The last 15 mins is my interview with @angiecoiro.bsky.social

www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

Our recent analysis made a sectional front page of the print edition of the Denver Post!

First two pages of “The Case for Media Reparations” article by Arcelia Gutierrez.

My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
1/5
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“Similar to the
way POC were formally excluded from homeownership via racial covenants,
FRC and early FCC licensing practices excluded non-white people from
broadcast ownership and licensing.”

If you don’t have institutional access and would like a copy, please send me an email. 5/5

“The broadcast licensing practices and regulations established by the FRC and later the FCC functioned like a racially restrictive covenant…” 4/5

“Given these practices and history, I make the case for broadcast media reparations to redress US
broadcasting’s segregationist practices and legacies of institutional racism.” 3/5

“I argue that mainland US broadcasting has historically
operated as a white racial project that has systemically privileged whiteness
and excluded, segregated, and disenfranchised POC.” 2/5

First two pages of “The Case for Media Reparations” article by Arcelia Gutierrez.

My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
1/5
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Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

If you’re not from LA or living in LA you really only have two things you can do:

1. Speak out against the violent kidnapping of innocent Americans, stand up for civil rights & due process, and push back against treating peaceful communities like war zones.

Or

2. Shut Up

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.

Wrote a historical piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.

Brendan Carr Is Turning the FCC Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda. www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings The media organization said the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated.

Removing members of private corporations simply because you disagree with the way the organizations they fund cover government actions is a form of censorship and control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Sharing with everyone reading this thread the story breaking this news and putting it into context:

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Then came the intimidation.

While preparing this disclosure, Berulis found a drone surveillance photo of himself taped to his front door with a threatening note.

This was just a few days ago.

The most daming claim in this statement IMO:

Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.

2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity

“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”

#defendhighered

If you’re still in OC, drop by Bandito Taqueria in Santa Ana. Top tier TJ-style tacos.

Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime Meet the Chicago woman who birthed the soap opera, first for radio in the 1930s and then TV in the 1950s.

First episode out today for Making: Stories without End podcast from @wbez.org! This one is mostly about the "mother" of daytime soap opera, Irna Phillips. If you like Chicago, broadcast history, soap opera, or listening to me you will enjoy it!
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