We start with the FIRE campus-speech polling and react to the growing share of students who support shouting down, blocking or even using violence to stop controversial speakers. That sends us into a First Amendment discussion, a quick detour on the survey’s college demographics and some lighter studio banter before Dawn takes over with local news.
Dawn tracks the PHL mess after an FAA communications failure and a severed backup fiber line snarl flights across the Northeast. She also covers K-9 Nitro’s $19,000 cash seizure, the Cheltenham football hazing case and questions surrounding four former coaches, Pennsylvania’s proposed disease rules and the Wonderland Pier Ferris wheel demolition. Phil follows with Zach Ertz returning to the Eagles after Dallas Goedert’s MCL sprain, the Phillies’ postseason chase, Flyers preseason action and the rash of NFL quarterback injuries.
Our Big Take centers on the legal and constitutional clash after CNN, MS NOW and Politico are barred from the White House and file suit. We hear the case for the news organizations, the White House defense, the TV networks’ pool response and the argument over hard passes before moving into immigration-enforcement stories from Maryland, Chicago and Southwest Florida. We close the hour by asking whether any of the White House access fight changes the coverage Americans actually receive.
