The Hound | Oct. 13

Hi there,

It’s Tuesday. The Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News — demanding their internal communications about the White House TV pool. The networks’ alleged crime: briefly suspending pool coverage in solidarity after Trump illegally banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover this DOJ investigation not as an antitrust story, but as a sitting president using the Justice Department to punish journalists for solidarity. The networks should refuse to comply, fight in court, and report on their own targeting with the same aggression they would bring to any other government abuse of power.

A federal judge has already ruled that ban likely unconstitutional. This is retaliation dressed as law enforcement. It is seizing the communications of news organizations that stood together against a president who banned his critics from covering him. The public deserves a press corps that understands its own freedom is on the line.

In addition, Hegseth plans a televised execution in December. And howICE has normalized bad law enforcement tactics in its surges across the country.

Read about these, and more, in today’s stories:

Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations (NPR)

‘Normalize Bad Tactics’: ICE Keeps Shooting at People in Cars (The Marshall Project)

If the Nidal Hasan Execution Is Livestreamed, We Are a Barbaric Nation (The New Republic)

Iran calls latest U.S. proposal to end war 'insufficient' as Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes (PBS)

How a Defunct White Supremacist State Became a Cult Favorite on the Right (Mother Jones)

In Washington State, the Oyster Industry Is At War With Ghost Shrimp (Civil Eats)

In One Historically Black Florida Community, the Drinking Water Is Brown (Inside Climate News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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