August 21, 2017 – President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, under chairman Ajit Pai, has been clearing the way for a merger between Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media, two television companies that together own hundreds of local news stations. Just months ago, this sort of merger would have been illegal. For years, FCC rules prevented any […]
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John Light is a reporter and digital producer for the Moyers team. His work has appeared at The Atlantic, Grist, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Vox and Al Jazeera, and has been broadcast on Public Radio International. He's a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow him on Twitter at @LightTweeting.
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John Light: 11 Ways the EPA Has Helped Americans
March 20, 2017 – The budget proposal Donald Trump’s administration announced yesterday will slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding by nearly a third, crippling an agency that has played a key — but often unnoticed — role in American life for nearly a half-century. The main target of the president’s ire seems to be the […]
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Years of Living Dangerously Returns To Television Sunday
October 31, 2016 – This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. This year sees the implementation of the world’s first agreement to combat climate change. An inadequate but major milestone, the Paris agreement was driven in part by President Barack Obama’s willingness to take some initial action to confront this looming threat to our planet. Yet […]