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One of the things that has flown under the radar during the Trump admin has been t
he non net nuetrality changes at the FCC. Essentially they have made it legal for 1 super conservative company, Sinclair media, to own 70 Percent of all the local news media in the country. How it happened

When Trump took office, Sinclair was on the cusp of purchasing Tribune media, a merger that would give the firm ownership of enough local stations to reach 70 percent of U.S. homes. But there were two obstacles to such a deal: Federal rules put a cap on the number of local news stations any single entity could own, and also prohibited any company from owning a newspaper and television station in the same media market. Taking on Tribune’s assets would put Sinclair in violation of both those laws.

But by the end of Trump’s first year in office, his appointees to the Federal Communications Commission had abolished both of those regulations. And so, in all probability, a single, superrich family of arch-conservatives will soon dictate standards of “journalistic responsibility” to local TV newsrooms from coast to coast.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...rs-now-have-to-read-pro-trump-propaganda.html


and here is what it looks like in a really well edited video


impressive and creepy, isn't it?
 
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this is exactly the same as the “liberal media”
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exactly. Show these people that 3/4th's of the media is owned by 1 company pushing the same agenda and they will tell you that the other 3/4th's are doing the exact same. These people get upset that we call them morons
 
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Jon said:
can you explain to me when in our history nearly 70 percent of local media was owned by 1 company or family?

or 60 percent?

or nearly 50?
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1. I was responding to JBama above - not refuting your post.

2. Unless I have misread no one owns "70% of local media". Market ownership and market penetration are different concepts. All of those markets likely have multiple choices for consumers.

3. If you believe this is new you haven't been paying attention. Consolidation has been a hallmark of US mass media for decades.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

http://newspaperownership.com/additional-material/largest-newspaper-owners/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...-duopoly-of-facebook-and-google/#5383a16433c9

and from 1952...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/793457?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


So why just now get up in arms about it?
 
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NationalTitles17 said:
1. I was responding to JBama above - not refuting your post.

2. Unless I have misread no one owns "70% of local media". Market ownership and market penetration are different concepts. All of those markets likely have multiple choices for consumers.

3. If you believe this is new you haven't been paying attention. Consolidation has been a hallmark of US mass media for decades.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

http://newspaperownership.com/additional-material/largest-newspaper-owners/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...-duopoly-of-facebook-and-google/#5383a16433c9

and from 1952...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/793457?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


So why just now get up in arms about it?
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you know the restrictions that I show Trump removed in the OP? They were a response to this. They were in place because of what you are showing removing those restrictions took was a bad and ongoing problem as you clearly illustrate and made it far far worse. Thank you for proving my point.

Now, would you like to show me how and when 1 single family was able to have even a remotely close amount of control as Trump's FCC is allowing Sinclair?
 
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you know the restrictions that I show Trump removed in the OP? They were a response to this. They were in place because of what you are showing removing those restrictions took was a bad and ongoing problem as you clearly illustrate and made it far far worse. Thank you for proving my point.

Now, would you like to show me how and when 1 single family was able to have even a remotely close amount of control as Trump's FCC is allowing Sinclair?
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Too much to admit you misunderstood my statement? Forget the rest of it. I really don't care. 1 family. 1 corporation. Doesn't matter to me.
 
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Too much to admit you misunderstood my statement? Forget the rest of it. I really don't care. 1 family. 1 corporation. Doesn't matter to me.
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I missed the part about it being a response to someone else. Mea Culpa

but why you wouldn't care anyway is beyond me. This is far from normal, this is the kind of media that lead to the creation of the FCC and to the Spanish American war and 1/2 our country doesn't seem to care
 
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I missed the part about it being a response to someone else. Mea Culpa

but why you wouldn't care anyway is beyond me. This is far from normal, this is the kind of media that lead to the creation of the FCC and to the Spanish American war and 1/2 our country doesn't seem to care
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Did the FCC keep us out of Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq? People have ever increasing possibilities of getting information. They may not be good, but I'm not so sure their previous sources were good.
 
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Did the FCC keep us out of Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq? People have ever increasing possibilities of getting information. They may not be good, but I'm not so sure their previous sources were good.
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but people don't have ever increasing possibilities of getting information as the FCC under Trump has made it where the pipeline of infinite possibilities that was the Internet has also been destroyed. But whatever, same as it ever was right?
 
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We all know that the message in the monologue is false. There are no biased, one-sided news stories, no fake news, no bias in the media. And it is not dangerous to our democracy.
 
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NationalTitles17 said:
1. I was responding to JBama above - not refuting your post.

2. Unless I have misread no one owns "70% of local media". Market ownership and market penetration are different concepts. All of those markets likely have multiple choices for consumers.

3. If you believe this is new you haven't been paying attention. Consolidation has been a hallmark of US mass media for decades.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

http://newspaperownership.com/additional-material/largest-newspaper-owners/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...-duopoly-of-facebook-and-google/#5383a16433c9

and from 1952...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/793457?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


So why just now get up in arms about it?
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I think the video and the figure 70% are scary, but the figure may be misleading.
Owning a platform in 70% of markets does not mean that 70% of consumers have no alternative but to watch a Sinclair-owned station. It means that any randomly selected news consumer in any particular media market has the option of watching a Sinclair-owned station.
When I watch local news, I do not watch the first 5 minutes on a randomly-selected local station in the New York market, then the next 5 minutes on a randomly selected station in the LA market, etc. I watch one station in one market.
I ran an experiment a while back and channel-hopped during the national news. I went from CBS to ABC to NBC. I noticed that the big three networks covered the same stories, in the same order and with the same editorial slant. I do not think it was a case of collusion, just a case of the editors all going to Ivy-League schools of journalism and imbibing the same political orientation that could not imagine an alternative viewpoint being legitimate.

To the OP, a more interesting statistic is what percent of American households can access local news only from Sinclair-owned local stations. I'd wager that number is low, but those folks are the ones suffering from viewpoint exclusion, not the 70% who have the option of watching a Sinclair station (among other stations).

I would also add that the juxtaposition of a bunch of local media folks mindlessly parroting a prepared script with the 70% market penetration is a juxtaposition worthy of Pravda at its height of powers to disinformation.
 
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Sinclair TV chairman to Trump: 'We are here to deliver your message'

The chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group met Donald Trump at the White House during a visit to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to administration officials, the Guardian has learned.

David D Smith, whose company has been criticised for making its anchors read a script echoing Trump’s attacks on the media, said he briefed officials last year on a system that would enable authorities to broadcast direct to any American’s phone.

He recalled an earlier meeting with Trump during the 2016 election campaign, where he told the future president: “We are here to deliver your message.”
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