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The Sinclair Sneak Attack
How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation
... Thence a story on how the Sinclair Media giant is becoming gianter. (More giantly?) It's the right-wing local TV version of Fox News. It is growing into a monster, due of course to Trumpian deregulation which allows greater and greater media consolidation, something I fear and loathe for the reasons below.
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will duff
Tijeras, NM 5 hours ago
TV news is a biz I once consulted, so I'm just bubbling with opinions on
the subject.
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Now cities are "markets," and news departments are "profit centers" with far fewer journalists and a greatly reduced watchdog ethos. The idea that the airwaves belong to the public has faded dramatically and service to communities is only valuable if it is also service to the bottom line. Certainly there are fine local news operations still, but this trend of deregulation on all fronts will continue to deprive us - the public - of a unique democratic channel of truth and accountability about local and state governments and businesses we once had.