This is Sinclair, 'the most dangerous US company you've never heard of'

[deminks]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/17/sinclair-news-media-fox-trump-white-house-circa-breitbart-news

ost Americans don’t know it exists. Primetime US news refers to it as an “under-the-radar company”. Unlike Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, virtually no one outside of business circles could name its CEO. And yet, Sinclair Media Group is the owner of the largest number of TV stations in America.

“Sinclair’s probably the most dangerous company most people have never heard of,” said Michael Copps, the George W Bush-appointed former chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the top US broadcast regulator.

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During last year’s presidential campaign, Sinclair conducted zero interviews with Clinton. But it touted 15 “exclusive” ones with Trump, which aired mostly in critical swing states in the final months of the election and without any commentary, despite the copious fact-checking Trump interviews tend to require. Sinclair has insisted it had no special arrangement with the Trump campaign and that Clinton simply did not make herself available to them. Clinton campaign officials say they spurned Sinclair for a reason, though her vice-presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, gave a handful interviews to Sinclair stations.

According to Politico, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner told a room full of Manhattan business executives that the campaign had struck a deal with Sinclair to secure better coverage in the states where they needed spots most.

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In 1996, David Smith was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute who performed what the police called “unnatural and perverted sex on him” in a Mercedes owned by Sinclair. More disturbing to critics than the misdemeanor sex offense, though, was the unusual way he got out of doing the court-ordered community service that resulted from his plea bargain in the case: by having his broadcasting company do what amounted to publicity hits for local drug counseling programs, packaged as news.

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[spanone]

1. they'll put shit in every home.....scary

[Johnny2X2X]

2. They're buying FOX17 in W MI

FOX17 here is the most liberal local news. Sinclair is buying them. This will be worse than what FNC has done to the country.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Sinclaire and Circa are far worse than Fux Ruse and will cause enormous harm to

the country. It is very far reaching.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. But, but, here in Eugene, OR, KVAL TV keeps telling us "Sinclair cares."

Yeah, but cares about what?

[democratisphere]

6. Cares about pushing their right wing propoganda.

US is under propaganda siege.

[LovesPNW]

7. KATU in the Portland market

Is Sinclair owned

Frankly, all I expect from local news is weather and traffic. I tend to bypass them, otherwise.

[AlexSFCA]

5. taking over broadcasting

'real news' is just a preview

[still_one]

8. This was the company who wanted to interrupt normal programming to present what they called a

"documentary" containing lies and distortions by the swift boat pukes on John Kerry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/politics/campaign/tv-group-to-show-antikerry-film-on-62-stations.html?mcubz=0

[workinclasszero]

9. Like Fox and hate radio wasn't bad enough

Damn

[doc03]

10. They have two stations in the Pittsburgh market nt

[riversedge]

11. Some days I just feel defeated, esp. when I read stuff like this.