State-Funded Media and Press Pass Denials: The Slippery Slope to Fascism Exposed

State-funded private media looks a lot like fascism. If the state funds preferred media while restricting access to critics, it stops looking like support for journalism and starts looking like state control of the news and political narratives. I’m somewhat of a free speech absolutist, even when it’s uncomfortable. We don’t have the 1st amendment […]

AG Brown warned with up to one year in federal prison by DOJ if his office impedes citizen journalists

SEATTLE—Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s statement on reports of Somali-run home-based daycare providers being harassed alleging that “showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation” is being met with stern criticism by U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon. Brown’s statement was posted on X approximately […]

State-funded journalism is here in Washington state

By summer’s end, 16 journalism fellows will begin their two-year, state-funded fellowship led by the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. The fellows will travel to newsrooms across the state to cover multiple news deserts where underserved communities lack access to local journalism. The fellowship is modeled after the recently established […]