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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.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 03 2018, @03:36PM (4 children)
Reporting the truth about what he does is not "hating," you complete jackass.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @05:30PM
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
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)
According to the Bezos Post, Sanders is also a Putin's puppy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bernie-sanders-ad-man-who-played-paul-manaforts-game/2018/08/01/0df78c18-95c7-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on [washingtonpost.com]
Just saying...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:23AM
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.