Project 2025 explainers: How it'll affect journalists & LGBTQ people

Joshua Benton writes for NiemanLab:

"When some of the detailed proposals within Project 2025 — banning abortion pills, slashing climate regulations, criminalizing pornography, abolishing the Department of Education, mass deportations, to name only a few — gained public attention, Trump claimed to “know nothing about” it — despite the thicket of his own appointees who produced it.

Still, there was one element of Project 2025 I haven’t seen spelled out at length: its plans for the news media."

These include:

"Make it easier to seize journalists’ emails and phone records."
"Consider booting reporters out of the White House."
"Kill funding for NPR, PBS, and public broadcasting."
"Put Voice of America under the president’s command — or shut it down entirely."
"Limit advertising for prescription drugs."
"Punish former officials who speak to reporters."
"Ban TikTok…"
"…remove restrictions on media ownership…"
"…and eliminate Section 230 protections."

Joshua Benton, What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?: From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads. NiemanLab, Sept. 25, 2024

See also:

What is Project 2025? And what does it mean for LGBTQ+ Americans? Far-right activists have put together a series of directives for the next conservative president. Here's what it would mean to the LGBTQ+ community. Trudy Ring, Out.com, November 6, 2024

Days after the election, Donald Trump Jr. was making violent comments about political opponents. (HuffPost, Nov 9)