In 2025, Free Press created the Media Capitulation Index, a tool that "rates the degree...to which each media company has compromised its commitment to independent news and information in exchange for political favors and higher profits," in order to "examine[s] how their ownership influences public discourse and political outcomes across the United States." The tool rates each company on a scale of one to five chickens.
The organization's thesis is that because U.S. media landscape, via countless mergers and acquisitions, has concentrated control over much of what we see, read and hear, media entities are increasingly likely to seek profit over reporting with objectivity and integrity.
Free Press is an advocacy group focused upon addressing the ethical issues related to various aspects of all types of media,
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