Post #3648044
2025-01-31 03:05 UTC
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272574/trump-brent-bozell-usagm-agency-for-global-media
Appointed Leo.Brent Bozell III as head of U.S. Agency for Global Media, which runs VOA etc
He has called journalists "leftist partisans."
He runs an org that spreads disinformation about the media
He is the nephew of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., and helped him write it
Also, Bozell's son, Leo Brent Bozell IV, was convicted of assaulting law enforcement officials during the January 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol and sentenced to 45 months in prison
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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2025-01-31 03:09
"During the first weeks of 1933, the Nazi regime deployed the radio, press, and newsreels to stoke fears of a pending “Communist uprising,” then channeled popular anxieties into political measures that eradicated civil liberties and democracy." https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich