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The Nation - "It would be hard to describe the US as having a free press,” Jim Naureckas, longtime editor at the media-criticism organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting told me earlier this week. “The administration is openly calling for the punishment of media outlets based on the content of their coverage.” Even worse than the threats, he argued, was “the manipulation of regulations to concentrate media ownership in the hands of friends of the president. To have an openly authoritarian president picking and choosing which billionaires are going to have the stranglehold over information is a new level of censorship.”