Over at Margaret Sullivan's always-excellent newsletter, she's got an exclusive on something called the Media Capitulation Index. Free Press, the media advocacy group (not to be confused with Bari Weiss' thing), basically created a report card for how badly major media companies are caving to Trump administration pressure. Their rating system.
Their rating system. Stars for independence, chickens for capitulation. Out of 35 major media and tech companies they evaluated, exactly two earned stars: Bloomberg and Netflix.
Out of 35 major media and tech companies they evaluated, exactly two earned stars: Bloomberg and Netflix. Everyone else is somewhere on the chicken scale, from "vulnerable" (one chicken) all the way to "propaganda" (five chickens). The Present Age is a reader-supported publication.