Kushner: We struck deal with Sinclair for straighter coverage

[RandySF]

Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage, his son-in-law Jared Kushner told business executives Friday in Manhattan.

Kushner said the agreement with Sinclair, which owns television stations across the country in many swing states and often packages news for their affiliates to run, gave them more access to Trump and the campaign, according to six people who heard his remarks.

In exchange, Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary, Kushner said. Kushner highlighted that Sinclair, in states like Ohio, reaches a much wider audience — around 250,000 listeners — than networks like CNN, which reach somewhere around 30,000.

“It’s math,” Kushner said according to multiple attendees.

But Sinclair and other networks said such a deal is nothing nefarious or new - just an arrangement for extended sit-down interviews with both candidates, one many campaigns have done in previous years to get around the national media and directly to viewers in key states.


https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-campaign-sinclair-broadcasting-jared-kushner-232764

[Initech]

1. So "fair" coverage means hawking baseles bullshit like "The Storm"?

[Ms. Toad]

2. You know this article is more than a year old, right? n/t

[RandySF]

4. Yes, and relevant.

[Ms. Toad]

6. It may well be, but when I read something that starts out talking about "last Friday"

and it is more than a year old, with no explanation about why it is being posted, I wonder if the poster is aware of how old it is.

People running across old articles and thinking they are new articles happens quite a bit, especially if they land on them as a link from somewhere else - AND - people reading the thread often don't check the date and spread this new horrible thing that Trump has done without realizing it is not new.

[murielm99]

8. With Sinclair in the news right now,

I think it is fair and relevant to post this article, even though it is not new.

[Ms. Toad]

9. I had not seen any news about Sinclair prior to this thread -

and the post did not suggest why it was relevant - or that the OP knew it was more than a year old.

I've seen way too many old news articles posted here as if they were new news - and without context, or a comment indicating the OP knew it was old - that's what it looked like to me.

ETA: Case in point - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210440719

Posting a tweet from today, about an article nearly a year ago: http://reverbpress.news/features/mexico-wipes-trump-trump-toilet-paper-2/, as if it was new news.

[Achilleaze]

13. Sinclair has been all over the news lately...

So most people are aware right now of Sinclair's foul & unpatriotic collusion with the apparatus of Dirty Donny* & his Cabal of Corrupt KGOP Comrades.


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Ms. Toad]

14. I saw nothing on DU in GD before this thread

And the first thing I saw posted in LBN was about 4 hours before this thread was started. (There are plenty now, but not prior to encountering the post of the nearly a year old article that was not accompanied by an explanation.)

Doing a quick search broader than DU, the flood of news articles are, at most, 12 hours old. Most are in the 3-6 hour range.

It costs nothing more than a few words to caption an article that is about a year old, "Oldie but goodie," or "recent events make the relevance of this article clearer."

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. It's news to me.

[Ms. Toad]

15. News to me, as well -

but it would have been nice to know diving into it that it didn't just happen Friday. *(That's half my point - the other half is that a lot of times the OP is not even aware they are posting an old article.)

[msongs]

3. from what I read here the prob is not trump interviews uninterrupted but total propaganda

as official station policy with no alternatives offered.

[IluvPitties]

5. They are trying to control our media.

I feel I am living in Venezuela.

[american_ideals]

7. Translation: "We bribed a propaganda org to push our pro-billionaire propaganda"

And Sinclair is a billionaire-owned propaganda organization. Their goal, as with many GOP billionaires: destroy government to cut taxes on the rich. So that's what Kushner and Trump are now doing. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours: Sinclair propaganda to get votes for the GOP so they can cut taxes on billionaires.

We gotta break that circle.

[Scruffy1]

11. When will Democrats learn....

The corporate owned media will never be your friend. It is owned by big corporations,duh, You will have to circumvent it, The belief that the mass media can be an ally contradicts all of history. Yes you can single out th most egregious, but in the end it will always obey the money.

[Achilleaze]

12. It ain't "math" - it's corporate collusion

and it means pissing all over the long-ago sold-out tradition of an independent media.

[UCmeNdc]

16. Propaganda 101