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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: 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.