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posted by martyb on Friday August 03 2018, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-fourth-pillar dept.

The Washington Post (archive link) reports:

President Trump came to the defense of Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed merger with Tribune Media, days after the Federal Communications Commission raised "serious concerns" about the deal and began legal proceedings to challenge it on grounds the companies had misled regulators.

Trump said Tuesday that it was "So sad and unfair" that the FCC, an independent agency, did not approve the merger, a $3.9 billion transaction that would create a conservative television giant that originally hoped to reach roughly 70 percent of U.S. households.

In his tweet, the president stressed how the deal would provide a "conservative voice for and of the People," though politics are not supposed to factor into merger considerations.

"Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair. Disgraceful!" the president tweeted.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday August 03 2018, @01:39PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 03 2018, @01:39PM (#716679) Journal

    Never before have we had the blessing of a technology that allows the president, in his very own words, to express to the entire world just how unthinkingly stupid, naive, short sighted, petty and vindictive he actually is. Available for all to read. A permanent monument to the monumentally stupid.

    I hope he keeps playing with his Tweeter. It might keep the rest of us safe from what other harms he could do.

    Now if only the military could modernize their systems so that nuclear missiles could be launched from twitter. An excellent use of taxpayer money.

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