The good news is Americans say they are regularly consuming news. The bad news is they are increasingly getting their "news" from social media apps, especially X, TikTok and Facebook.

Fun fact: Before he was FCC chair, Brendan Carr was one of the authors of Project 2025, the Trump 2.0 blueprint his majesty said he knew nothing about. Specifically, Carr wrote the plan for overhauling the FCC.

The irony of the escalation of Trump's war on American media to include late night hosts is that it was one of their jokes that jump-started his presidency in the first place: Seth Meyers' monologue at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Tragic.

Following reports that Paramount Skydance is eyeing a deal to acquire "The Free Press" and put its editor in charge of CBS News, new data shows the right-wing pub generates only 4 million visits monthly.

Newspeak messaging aside, rebranding America's military from "defense" to "war" isn't just stupid, it's a $1 billion "branding boondoggle," according to pro-democracy veterans advocacy group VoteVets.org.

The odds of Trump NOT completing a full term as president are narrowing, at least on online betting platforms, if not the real world of political health.

The D stands for desensitized, as in becoming less emotionally or physically responsive to something unimaginable due to repeated exposure. Like coming of age during an epidemic of mass shootings - and mass media coverage of it -- all aimed at them.

At least, that's what some new research from Omnicom and language consultants Maslansky + Partners suggests. And the bottom line is no longer about being "good," but being "fair."