Great News Shocker...FCC Disapproves Sinclair Broadcasting Merger!

[Fred Sanders]

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/07/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-surprises-sinclair

"Sinclair Broadcasting Group's evil plot for World Media Domination has hit a snag. The heroism in this scenario comes from an unlikely source: an actual trump appointee!

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has expressed serious concern about Sinclair's bid to acquire Tribune Media. If the deal went through, Sinclair's Orange-Tinted Sludge could ooze from televisions into 75% of American households.

Sinclair promised to sell off some of it's stations, in an attempt to appear as if it was giving up some of it's control of the market. The proposed new owners of the sold-off stations, though, are close Sinclair associates who would essentially be beholden to Sinclair and still controlled by them. (Almost just like iif a president promised to divest himself of his companies, but instead of doing that he just put his kids in charge of the companies so that he still basically was in charge and got the profits. But, I digress...) Anyhow, Pai wasn't buying it, and proposed an administrative review that effectively kills the deal."

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Evil fascist plot for local media domination hits a snag...the rule of law.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Sinclair probably seen as a threat to FOX dominance. Pai will someday work for FOX.

[renate]

3. Good point

I don’t see Ajit Pai doing anything for the right reasons.

[DBoon]

2. "...Sludge could ooze from televisions..."

I'm in a Zappa mood today, for the slime oozing out of your TV set:

[Iliyah]

4. fake news (Murdoch) told him "don't do it"

[realmirage]

5. Clearchannel destroyed radio

Don’t know much about the companies you mention but consolidation of media is scary and needs to be blocked

[Bengus81]

6. Turned FM stations into bots that just play the same shit over and over............

And....I'm talking about oldies/Classic Rock where you could have a play list of thousands of songs. Nope,same shit every day as it's all LOCKED DOWN on a computer. Oh...and make sure it's only the SHORT version that plays,when done you can throw in another commercial or two.

[realmirage]

7. It's a real loss what happened to radio

Music is an important aspect of human life. Greed has destroyed radio. My guess is that people will abandon radio like they have cable tv. You’re right about it being a bot. The radio is like a lifeless bot that’s always on but empty as hell.

Satellite radio and podcasts will probably replace radio at some point. Freedom will always find another outlet when greed destroys the current one.