{"id":25501,"date":"2016-12-18T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2016-12-18T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T17:18:57","slug":"the-worst-media-the-fuhrer-could-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/the-worst-media-the-fuhrer-could-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Media the Fuhrer Could Bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a rule, most of us would agree that the media did an absolutely atrocious job of reporting on future Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten.  There were a number of reasons for this.  One is that Faux Noise<\/em> is the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda.  Another is self-interest.  A horserace brings in more advertising dollars that a blowout.  Another is that the Fuhrer lied faster than anyone could fact- check.  But, it confused me that when I watched local news, they seldom challenged even his most blatant lies.  Why?  They became the worst media the Fuhrer could bribe.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1218Sinclair\"<\/p>\n

President-elect Donald Trump has long positioned himself at odds with the media, lashing out at reporters and outlets that dared to criticize him or shine light on his numerous scandals. His vitriol toward the press became so intense on the campaign trail that reporters covering his rallies began to fear for their safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign also sought out allies, like Fox News’ Sean Hannity<\/a>, to counteract the media’s attempt at straightforward coverage with airtime unencumbered by tough questions (over $31 million in free airtime, in fact). Now it seems Hannity wasn’t the only one. The campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group for similarly uncritical coverage<\/strong>, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly told a group of business executives<\/a> in Manhattan Friday.<\/p>\n

Sinclair got more access to Trump and the campaign and, in return, broadcast Trump interviews without commentary to its television stations across the country<\/strong>, six people who heard Kushner’s remarks told Politico.<\/p>\n

“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.”A Trump spokesperson told Politico the Sinclair deal included interviews running across every affiliate and that the campaign had sought to disseminate information through other media companies with affiliates, like Hearst.<\/p>\n

Sinclair Broadcast Group owns or has partnerships with 173 television stations, on 482 channels, in 81 U.S. markets, according to its website [media whores delinked<\/em>]…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Think Progress<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

The Sinclair station here in Portland is KATU, the ABC affiliate.  Tomorrow IK intend to call them and ask them why I should support their advertisers when they profit from prostituting their profession to the Nazi Nincompoop!<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!! <\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a rule, most of us would agree that the media did an absolutely atrocious job of reporting on future Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten.  There were a number of reasons for this.  One is that Faux Noise is the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda.  Another is self-interest.  A horserace brings in more advertising dollars that a blowout.  Another […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}