Flock has blanketed 49 states with automatic license-plate reading cameras, but communities are fighting back
Free Press Update: Paramount’s airball and Carr’s unlawful scheme The team at Free Press Action freepress.net From: info@freepress.net To: Mark M Giese Tue, Aug 25 2026 at 12:26 PM Mark, Paramount blinked. The company agreed to pause its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery until June 2027, after a federal judge blocked the deal and 12 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit. Our co-CEO Craig Aaron put it plainly: “Paramount tried to tell us this deal was a slam-dunk, but it just shot an airball.” Free Press pushed for that lawsuit for months. Now the $111 billion deal that would put CBS, CNN, HBO, Nickelodeon and two major film studios under one Trump-friendly roof faces a full antitrust trial in March of next year. That’s what happens when people fight back. But FCC Chairman Brendan Carr isn’t slowing down. While that merger fight heads to court, the FCC voted to kill the national TV ownership cap , opening the door for Trump-aligned billionaires to buy up eve...
