Courtesy of The Guardian:
John Oliver took a look at the Sinclair group on Sunday night, examining the conservative-leaning station’s ownership of many local news networks.
“Our main story tonight concerns the potential problems in corporate consolidation of local news,” Oliver began. “National cable news gets a lot of attention with their big budgets and their fancy graphics packages. Meanwhile, local news often has to do a lot more with a lot less.”
He went on to show clips of broadcaster Mark Hyman railing against “political correctness and multiculturalism”.
“Hyman is a commentator and former executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group, and Sinclair may be the most influential media company you’ve never heard of,” Oliver explained. “Not only are they the largest owner of local TV stations in the country, they could soon get even bigger,” referring to the company’s proposed $4bn acquisition of all Tribune Media stations.
Once again John Oliver has exposed an incredibly troubling problem that many of us did not even realize existed.
Like I said this is even more troubling than Fox News or Right Wing radio.
At least with those you can have the expectation that the news you are hearing is slanted and possibly even exaggerated for effect.
But your local news is supposed to be tailored to the needs of its viewers, not shaped by the odeology of its conservative overlords.
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John Oliver took a look at the Sinclair group on Sunday night, examining the conservative-leaning station’s ownership of many local news networks.
“Our main story tonight concerns the potential problems in corporate consolidation of local news,” Oliver began. “National cable news gets a lot of attention with their big budgets and their fancy graphics packages. Meanwhile, local news often has to do a lot more with a lot less.”
He went on to show clips of broadcaster Mark Hyman railing against “political correctness and multiculturalism”.
“Hyman is a commentator and former executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group, and Sinclair may be the most influential media company you’ve never heard of,” Oliver explained. “Not only are they the largest owner of local TV stations in the country, they could soon get even bigger,” referring to the company’s proposed $4bn acquisition of all Tribune Media stations.
Once again John Oliver has exposed an incredibly troubling problem that many of us did not even realize existed.
Like I said this is even more troubling than Fox News or Right Wing radio.
At least with those you can have the expectation that the news you are hearing is slanted and possibly even exaggerated for effect.
But your local news is supposed to be tailored to the needs of its viewers, not shaped by the odeology of its conservative overlords.
Source http://ift.tt/2ulJPS6
