TBD | How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

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With a Trump-friendly Supreme Court and a contentious relationship with the press, could Donald Trump follow through on his 2016 campaign goal of making it easier to sue media companies for libel—and imperil America’s free press? Guest: David Enrich, business investigations editor at the New York Times and author of “Murder The Truth.” Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Candace Lem and Kate Lindsay from I-C-Y-M-I.
0:04.7	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:07.0	And if you've been bombarded with memes on the timeline surrounding some guy named Montoya,
0:13.2	we just did an episode breaking down who he is, why he's on your feed,
0:16.9	and why he is the greatest meme of the year so far.
0:20.0	To hear more about Montoya Porpovor,
0:22.0	you can find our episode by checking out the I-CYMI podcast wherever you listen.
0:31.5	David, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself? Say your name, tell me who you are, what you do?
0:42.0	My name is David Enrich, and I am the business investigations editor at the New York Times,
0:48.7	and I am the author of a new book called Murder the Truth.
0:54.7	When I sat down with David earlier this week,
0:57.5	I started by reading him a little bit of a filing
1:00.4	with the Federal Communications Commission.
1:02.9	The filings from Monday, from CBS Broadcasting,
1:06.4	asking the FCC to reject a complaint about its show 60 minutes.
1:11.8	Here's what it says.
1:19.3	The complaint filed against CBS for, quote, news distortion envisions a less free world in which the federal government becomes a roving censor, one that second guesses and even punishes specific
1:25.5	editorial decisions that are an essential part of producing
1:28.8	news programming. It's like a barn burner of a statement to find in a little filing, huh?
1:36.9	Yeah, it's pretty good. It sounds like they've got some lawyers with good writing skills and a
1:42.6	clear sense of purpose.
1:49.7	CBS and its parent company Paramount are in a standoff with the FCC and President Trump over a 60 minutes interview from last fall.
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