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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: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @01:42PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @01:42PM (#716681)

    Except for Faux, most propaganda on TV is Trump hating. How would the Sinclair merger eliminate that barrage?

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 03 2018, @03:36PM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday August 03 2018, @03:36PM (#716757) Journal

    Reporting the truth about what he does is not "hating," you complete jackass.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @05:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @05:30PM (#716813)

      The shills/trolls/dummies are out in force! I sure grew up in a bubble where even the dumb people were geniuses by some of the standards around here. Now it isn't genetic, it is 100% culturally learned stupidity with lies about "free markets = freedom and democracy" wagging the fuck out of the dogs.

      It has been rough learning just how low the bar is and how little critical thought goes into most people's opinions.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Friday August 03 2018, @06:07PM

      by digitalaudiorock (688) on Friday August 03 2018, @06:07PM (#716832) Journal

      They're just parroting Trump himself calling us all "haters" (just to prove we actually do have a high-school kid in the White house). And fucking Sinclair FFS...they make Fox News look like fucking Mother Jones. Yet there are some here that actually believe the likes of them somehow "balance out" the "liberal media" that dares imply that Trump ever lies...even in cases where his own conflicting statements on video for all to see prove without the need for evidence that one of two things he said must be false. It is a seriously sad fucking time.

    • (Score: 2) by legont on Saturday August 04 2018, @12:56AM (1 child)

      by legont (4179) on Saturday August 04 2018, @12:56AM (#717046)
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:23AM (#717120)

        To the Bezos Post's credit, they did mark this article as "Opinion". Not like (looking at title page now) "Trump _associate_ socialized with _alleged_ Russian agent" type "could be, sources say, appears that" shit that goes into the "news" section.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 03 2018, @05:37PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 03 2018, @05:37PM (#716817) Journal
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @11:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @11:02PM (#717017)

      Holy fuck! So that's what the great nation of America has become.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by dry on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:33AM

        by dry (223) on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:33AM (#717102) Journal

        Hey, just reading the main SoylentNews front page, there's a few ways that America is great. Number of women dying in child birth, most people living from paycheck to paycheck, the greatest twit, and on to the next article about the greatest copyright laws. Then there are the traditional ones like the greatest prison population.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:33AM (#717125)

      Here's another one from US public radio: https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-08-02/ukraines-first-female-police-officers-wont-be-posing-selfies-anymore-theyre-too [pri.org]

      Portraying our meddling and regime change in the mafia state of Ukraine as great for empowering women (Hillary for Woman President!!1!).