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There's Now a Report Card for Media Capitulation, and It's Full of Chickens

Free Press mapped out the ownership, donations, and compromises behind 35 major media companies. The results aren't pretty.

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Parker Molloy
Jul 30, 2025
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Over at Margaret Sullivan's always-excellent

American Crisis
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? Stars fo…

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