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John Oliver Exposes The Right-Wing Media Empire Taking Over Your Local News
As John Oliver pointed out on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group is in the process of buying Tribune Media, a move that would give it more than 200 stations. He said the combined evening news viewership once the deal is complete would average 2.2 million people per night “It’s more than any current primetime show on Fox News including ‘Five Idiots Have The Most Intolerable Dinner Party Ever’ and ’That Guy From College Everyone Hated Has A Talk Show Now With Tucker Carlson,’” he said.
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NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, etc... all have stations owned by companies that don't exactly remain neutral, but you let a conservative run company buy up some stations and suddenly the sky is falling, conservatives are taking over the airwaves.
You’re right, of course. Consolidated, corporate, cartel-level control of mass media and the internet didn’t suddenly become a problem.
Just like it doesn’t stop being a problem when you think somehow it means your side is ‘winning.’
When FDR was president, the public airwaves were just that. By Bush the Elder’s time, fifty companies controlled nine tenths of American broadcast media. As of last year, it was down to five companies controlling 90% of broadcast media. Trump’s kleptocracy’s given up any pretense of protecting the public interest. You may think that’s all well and good. It ain’t sudden but there are large chunks of sky laying all over the ground making a Hell of a mess.
Edit: ‘But’ not ‘and.’