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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: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday August 03 2018, @12:21PM (6 children)
Of course as always it must be a "tweet"(R)(TM) rather than "he said" or "he posted". And all communications to the consumertard masses MUST be made through the private third party web site Twitter(R)(TM).
(Score: 2, Insightful) by EEMac on Friday August 03 2018, @12:49PM (4 children)
It's a good fit for him, and doesn't censor or twist his words. It's even open for commentary from the many people who don't like him. What's so terrible about this?
(Score: 2) by Snow on Friday August 03 2018, @09:40PM (3 children)
I'd say that it 'cheapens' the presidency. Twitter is a platform that is designed to lack depth.
When a president posts something, you shouldn't have to wonder if they typed it up while taking a shit.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @10:29PM (2 children)
Why do you use the SJW pronoun "they"? The president is an individual, not a group, and always a male. The word you were looking for is "he".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @10:40PM
Why did you get so triggered by the word "they"? Do you think there should be only one Approved Way to say everything?
Shakespeare used "they" in this way, so I don't know what you're sobbing about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @10:58PM
I thought the word he was looking for was "dumbass".
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday August 03 2018, @01:39PM
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.
Every performance optimization is a grate wait lifted from my shoulders.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 03 2018, @12:50PM (10 children)
By all appearances, the purpose of the recent expansion of Sinclair Broadcast Group is to set up a way for Trump-friendly propaganda to be the only TV shown in most American cities. So any disruption to that plan is cause for Trump to pull out the public complaining.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @01:42PM (9 children)
Except for Faux, most propaganda on TV is Trump hating. How would the Sinclair merger eliminate that barrage?
(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.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 03 2018, @05:37PM (3 children)
This is what REAL propaganda looks like. [npr.org]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @11:02PM (1 child)
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
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
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!).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @01:38PM (1 child)
If that's how Trump feels, who's stopping him from firing the person responsible? Well, aside from him being the person responsible that is...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @10:34PM
Imagine what would be happening if #CrookedHillary had managed to successfully rig the election.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday August 03 2018, @04:29PM
If Sinclair was too big, they could get leverage on Verizon in the future. Pai is, as usual, making the right decision for his boss.
> "Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair. Disgraceful!" the president tweeted.
Dudem you may want to check that Constitution thing again. The full tweet mentions a "much needed Conservative voice". If your tweeter is the official communication of the president, you just plowed through the First...
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Friday August 03 2018, @06:37PM
House of Mouse can buy Star Wars, Marvel, Fox, AT&T can go merger happy and buy DirecTV and Time-Warner, Comcast goes on a merger frenzy, etc. Only a few mergers get shot down for regulatory reasons and it is notable that this much smaller one did and wonder if the only other notable thing about it was related; the proposed / suspected political angle. The other notable NAK was Sprint and T-Mobile. And instead of that more interesting discussion all we will see is the usual Trump hate and defense.