Mostly Economics Podcast #33: Nexstar-Tegna Merger and Media Partisanship with Milo Vassallo

Right-wing billionaires are buying up local TV news networks and a federal regulator is helping them do it. In this week's episode, Dean Baker and Milo Vassallo, executive director of the Media and Democracy Project, break down what media consolidation means for communities across. They dig into the Nexstar-Tegna merger, the FCC's role under Brendan Carr, the fall of local journalism, and what a coalition of state attorneys general is doing to fight back. Follow: CEPR on X/TwitterDean Baker, Mostly Economics Host and Senior Economist and CEPR Co-Founder