SlowAppreciation Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 New VIC writeup:https://valueinvestorsclub.com/idea/SINCLAIR_BROADCAST_GP__-CL_A/140649 Not a whole lot new, but a good summary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shalab Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Don't have access - can you please provide a summary? New VIC writeup:https://valueinvestorsclub.com/idea/SINCLAIR_BROADCAST_GP__-CL_A/140649 Not a whole lot new, but a good summary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Sinclair’s Washington Winning Streak Has Democrats Crying Foul https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/sinclair-s-washington-winning-streak-has-democrats-crying-foul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepydragon Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/17/sinclair-news-media-fox-trump-white-house-circa-breitbart-news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowAppreciation Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/the-growth-of-sinclairs-conservative-media-empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooDiligence Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 A travesty for humans interested in the truth. Harrison Bergeron, coming soon, to a country near you. --- "Profit maximization has never been the sole point of communications policy in the United States. Under the Communications Act of 1934 (and its 1927 predecessor and its 1996 successor), the FCC is charged with making effective use of spectrum space by means of allocation to broadcasting and other services. This allocation is performed to maximize “the public interest, convenience, or necessity.” Though expressed in different ways over the years, the FCC has clearly held that the “best” broadcast station is locally owned and operated. Such ownership was deemed in the public interest, as it would presumably be closer to local needs and concerns, and thus the station would more adequately reflect and project that community than some absentee-owned operation or central network." (Gomery) "The 1996 act removed the numeric cap on the number of stations a broadcast network could own, replacing it with language that an individual, company, or corporation could own broadcast television stations that reached up to 35% of households in the United States (UHF stations counted half their actual reach for this limitation calculation). The act also removed the long-standing ban on joint radio-broadcast TV ownership in the same market." (Gomery) "Since 1995 the number of entities owning commercial TV stations has dropped by 40%. Newspaper ownership has rapidly consolidated as well. For example, Gannett, after a multi-billion dollar spate of acquisitions in 2000, grew from 74 daily newspapers to 99, and it operates as a local monopoly in each of these markets. Gannett now produces one out of every seven newspapers sold in the United States. Three huge chains, Gannett, Knight Ridder, and the Tribune Company, together account for a quarter of all the daily newspaper circulation in the nation." Gomery, Douglas. "FCC's Newspaper-Broadcast Cross Ownership Rule", Economic Policy Institute, 2002, https://www.epi.org/publication/books_cross-ownership/ --- Thank the gods that nobody can control the internet, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 ^ The chinese government can within China, with the great firewall. FB has a disproportionataley large market share in social media, but this is hardly a monopoly in terms of information and I really wonder about the folks who get their news from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooDiligence Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 ^ The chinese government can within China, with the great firewall. FB has a disproportionataley large market share in social media, but this is hardly a monopoly in terms of information and I really wonder about the folks who get their news from there. The great firewall ;D (I hadn't heard it called that before.) (funny, yet not funny...) Your FB comment raises a difficult question. How would the government apply market share limitations on them? An extremely slippery slope, even if they could figure out a way. --- My previous re: Sinclair displays a bias I have against them. The local affiliate in my town is owned by Sinclair & I stopped watching their "news" after watching Mark Harmon's BS editorials & then noticing the pass-off's from local personalities to national news personalities. They are scripted & seamless & make it look as if the local guy/gal actually knows the national guy/gal. I don't like this trend one single bit. "So we need something to tame the bewildered herd, and that something is this new revolution in the art of democracy: the manufacture of consent. The media, the schools, and popular culture have to be divided. For the political class and the decision makers they have to provide them some tolerable sense of reality, although they also have to instill the proper beliefs." NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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