After all the FCC bullshit, Sinclair will lose Tribune to a different giant media company
Last November, we reported that Trump’s FCC had reversed some media ownership regulations to make it so one company could control a newspaper and multiple TV networks in a single region without needing to control a “main studio” in the area, which basically meant that a giant company could swoop into an area and take over virtually all media. That would be dangerous on its own, but it came right on the heels of a planned merger between Tribune Media and Sinclair Broadcasting, which is best known as the right-wing propaganda network that has been sliding its tentacles into countless local news networks around the country and swinging them so far to the right that it would offend Fox & Friends. The timing of this move seemed to suggest that new FCC head Ajit Pai was purposefully changing the rules to make Sinclair’s quest for media domination a bit easier, so much so that the FCC itself began to notice how overtly shady Pai was being.