{"id":321972,"date":"2017-08-16T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-a-company-that-is-essentially-producing-trump-tv\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:19:33","slug":"this-is-a-company-that-is-essentially-producing-trump-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-a-company-that-is-essentially-producing-trump-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is a Company That Is Essentially Producing Trump TV\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Janine Jackson interviewed Craig Aaron about <strong>Sinclair Broadcasting<\/strong>&#8216;s attempt to buy <strong>Tribune Media<\/strong> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/kandi-mossett-on-dakota-access-update-craig-aaron-on-sinclair-takeover\/\">August 11, 2017, episode<\/a> of <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>. 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But it\u2019s looking to increase that dominance by taking over <b>Tribune Media<\/b>, which owns stations in key markets like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The deal would mean <b>Sinclair<\/b> would own more than 220 stations, reaching some 72 percent of US TV households.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5592182\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Politico-Sinclair.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5592182\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Politico-Sinclair.png\" alt=\"Politico: Who's Afraid of Sinclair Broadcasting?\" width=\"350\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Politico<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/08\/09\/sinclair-broadcasting-group-deal-215475\">8\/9\/17<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Time was, a single company controlling so much would raise alarms by itself, especially in a society that claims to value competition. But now critics like Jack Shafer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/08\/09\/sinclair-broadcasting-group-deal-215475\">say<\/a> that complaints about super-concentrated media ownership \u201creek of stupidity\u201d because, after all, there\u2019s <b>Netflix<\/b> and <b>Hulu<\/b> and <b>Amazon<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>No matter that vast numbers of Americans rely on local news as the primary way of learning about the world, or that the existence of multiple sectors is a not an argument for a lack of diversity in one sector. It\u2019s as if to say, it\u2019s OK that school textbooks are biased\u2014because, after all, there are cookbooks and comic books too.<\/p>\n<p>But if any company dominating the country\u2019s local news would be worrisome, those worries are compounded when it comes to <b>Sinclair<\/b>, because of that company\u2019s pronounced ideological bent, their track record, and the means by which they appear to be getting their way. Here to fill us in on the situation is Craig Aaron. He\u2019s president of the group Free Press. He joins us now by phone from Washington, DC. Welcome back to <b>CounterSpin<\/b>, Craig Aaron.<\/p>\n<p><b>Craig Aaron:<\/b> Thanks for having me back.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Perhaps before we talk about <b>Sinclair<\/b> becoming more powerful, we talk about what they\u2019ve done with the power they already have. What should we know about this company?<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> I think what you need to know about <b>Sinclair<\/b> is this is, first of all, a huge company. They already own more individual local television stations than any other company in the country. They\u2019re already at the supposed national cap for how many stations one company should be allowed to own. But <b>Sinclair<\/b>, in particular, has used their network to both push cookie-cutter content, but that content with a very, very conservative slant. This is a company with a very strong ideological agenda, and they push, to all of their affiliates, a series of conservative commentators who are must-runs for all those stations. They have to put them on the air.<\/p>\n<p>And they have a long history of using their media power to push a conservative agenda, and especially a Republican Party agenda. You know, this goes back at least as far as their <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/take-action\/action-alerts\/sinclairs-partisan-ploy-cries-out-for-equal-time\/\">decision<\/a> to run the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth video, that was an attack, essentially, a feature-length attack ad on John Kerry, when he was running for president. And there are numerous instances since then where they have used the public airwaves to push a very, very partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Yeah, the familiar argument from some quarters is that <b>Sinclair<\/b>\u2019s in-your-face right-wing views actually represent an influx of diversity in media. That relies on a rarely examined assumption that all other media represent an equally staunch liberalism that needs countering. And then a never-explained assumption that liberalism means, you know, believing Muslims or gay people have human rights. Shafer actually offers, as an example of the kind of \u201cunique viewpoint\u201d that deserves amplification, the fact that <b>Sinclair<\/b> made its <b>ABC<\/b> affiliates cancel <b>Nightline<\/b> when that show named the US servicepeople killed in the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>So we aren\u2019t talking about stations having roundtables in which conservatives have a voice. We\u2019re hearing, as you intimate, about folks who are watching the local news that they watched for years, and then\u2014what\u2019s that? Suddenly you\u2019re watching something called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2017\/jul\/03\/john-oliver-sinclair-broadcasting-rightwing-news-fox\">Terrorism Alert Desk<\/a>, and it\u2019s talking about how France might ban Muslim women\u2019s bathing suits?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5592184\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Terrorism-Alert-Desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5592184\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Terrorism-Alert-Desk.jpg\" alt=\"Sinclair's &quot;Terrorism Alert Desk&quot; (with anchor Jonathan Elias)\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Sinclair<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Terrorism Alert Desk&#8221; (with anchor Jonathan Elias)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> Right, exactly. This is what they\u2019ve specialized in, is this kind of fear-mongering coverage: Here come the graphics announcing \u201cTerrorism Alert Desk,\u201d but then, strangely, the stories are just about Muslims, as if those were the same thing. This is a station that\u2019s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/tv\/z-on-tv-blog\/bs-ae-zontv-fox45-20150109-story.html\">caught<\/a> doctoring audio to make it sound like anti-police brutality protesters were chanting \u201ckill a cop\u201d when they were chanting, \u201cput killer cops in jail.\u201d There\u2019s so many of these instances that have happened on <b>Sinclair<\/b> stations that they aren\u2019t anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>They are only offering one hard-right slant in their commentary, which they mix in, of course, with your normal traffic and weather and car crashes and local government stories. But anytime it comes to covering national politics, national news, they are putting a very hard slant on that. Might be your local anchor sometimes reading the lead-in to a script, but very often, you\u2019re getting centrally produced political programming pushing an agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And moreover, I think to Jack Shafer\u2019s points, what I always recommend when you look at what these companies are doing is you look at what they actually tell their investors. And what <b>Sinclair<\/b> is saying is not, hey, look, we\u2019re going out there to offer an alternative viewpoint. What they\u2019re saying is, we\u2019re going to try to take over as much local news as we can.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re aggressively pursuing an agenda, not only to reach the more than 70 percent of the country they\u2019ll get if this deal goes through, but then to begin swapping and trading stations at the local level, so that they can operate two, three, four stations in a given market, benefit from all that shared backend and domination of advertising, to actually push the same content out on multiple stations.<\/p>\n<p>This has long been their model. They set up a bunch of shell companies to carry this out. But now under the Trump administration, they\u2019ve sort of come out of hiding and pretending, and they&#8217;re just going for it.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Let me ask you about that relationship to Trump. But I first wanted to say, yeah, the CEO of <strong>Sinclair<\/strong>, I understand, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/critics-sinclair-tribume-media-deal-tell-fcc-would-politicize-local-news-raise-prices-1202143929\/\">quoted<\/a> saying, \u201cRight now there are three to five local players, and to us that doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d I mean, it seems an assault on localism per se, before you even get to the ideological piece.<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> That\u2019s absolutely right. I mean, that\u2019s their business agenda. And I think that is also what blows up all these arguments\u2014but, oh, we have so many choices for media today!\u2014and that might be true, in some senses, around entertainment, but it\u2019s absolutely not true when it comes to local news, still by far the No. 1 source of news and information for people at the local level, and you\u2019ve got one newsroom broadcasting on multiple stations. There\u2019s no one out there competing for stories, there\u2019s no diversity of viewpoints being put forward; that\u2019s incredibly damaging at that local level where it\u2019s needed the most.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Now, <b>Sinclair<\/b> is not just ideologically sharing a worldview with Donald Trump. The relationship goes rather deeper than that, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> It absolutely does. This is a company that is essentially producing Trump TV, at least in terms of the national programming and the must-runs. Of course, good journalists at all these local stations are just trying to do their jobs and report what\u2019s happening in the local community, but it is interspersed with, essentially, Republican Party talking points.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, after the election, Jared Kushner somewhat infamously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/trump-campaign-sinclair-broadcasting-jared-kushner-232764\">acknowledged<\/a> that he had a \u201cdeal,\u201d as he called it, with <b>Sinclair<\/b>, to offer uncut access to the <b>Sinclair<\/b> airwaves for Trump. <b>Sinclair<\/b> will tell you, oh, we offered the same deal to Hillary Clinton, but strangely, only Donald Trump took them up on it. And they\u2019ve gone out of their way to hire former Trump campaign folks like Boris Epshteyn, who is now their top political commentator, who essentially operates as an extension of the White House.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5592180\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craig_Aaron_C-SPAN-Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5592180\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craig_Aaron_C-SPAN-Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Aaron (image: C-SPAN)\" width=\"340\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Craig Aaron: &#8220;You\u2019ve got a network absolutely going to bat for the Republican Party&#8230;using all the same talking points and language that Trump does on &#8216;fake news.&#8217;&#8230; Then turning around and saying, OK, we\u2019re here for our policy favors.&#8221; (image: <strong>C-SPAN<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So we have a situation where you\u2019ve got a network absolutely going to bat for the Republican Party, taking it upon itself, using all the same talking points and language that Trump does on \u201cfake news,\u201d to essentially offer an alternative narrative about what\u2019s actually happening in Washington, attacking other journalistic outlets for aggressively covering the president, saying the Russia stuff is no big deal, and on and on and on, trumpeting Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Then turning around and saying, OK, we\u2019re here for our policy favors. We have a long wishlist of limits on media ownership and other regulations that we\u2019d like to get rid of, and the Trump administration actually <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/trump-uses-power-of-fcc-to-pay-back-friends-at-sinclair-broadcasting\/\">making that a priority<\/a>, either by loosening the rules, or in one case actually reinstating a regulation the Obama administration got rid of, in order to allow <b>Sinclair<\/b> to pretend its national reach, at least when they\u2019re at the FCC, to pretend that their national reach isn\u2019t as big as it actually is.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Now, I understand that even those who might be assumed to share their worldview are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/even-some-trump-allies-are-worried-about-sinclairs-expansion\/217556\">against this merger<\/a>, other companies, and that\u2019s for different reasons. But still, you have other what we might call right-wing outlets who themselves oppose the merger.<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> That\u2019s right. A number of groups filed formal challenges to the merger, including my group Free Press, but also <b>Newsmax<\/b>, some local newspaper publishers, <b>Dish<\/b> television. But it\u2019s been interesting to see the critique coming from the right, which I think rightfully recognizes this is just too much media power in one company\u2019s hands. And they know that if <b>Sinclair<\/b> is allowed to have this dominance over local television, then they&#8217;re going to use all of that money, all of that income, to move into other markets.<\/p>\n<p>They have an online news service called <b>Circa<\/b>. Once they start making all this money from these big markets\u2014from what&#8217;s called retransmission consent negotiations, which allows cable companies to carry local broadcast stations; from all the political ads\u2014they\u2019re going to pour that into undercutting their competitors on the right, even where there\u2019s ideological alignment.<\/p>\n<p>And I think what you\u2019re seeing here, and you\u2019re seeing this on the right and the left right now, is just growing concern about too much media power, growing appreciation of just how seriously we need to get about antitrust and other limits on one company getting so big that others can no longer afford to compete.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s at risk if a deal like this is allowed to go through, especially because what will happen is it will inspire other companies to do their own deals to try to catch up. So you\u2019re going to see the <b>Nexstar<\/b>s and the <b>Fox<\/b>es of the world suddenly saying, oh, <b>Sinclair<\/b>\u2019s got 200 stations, maybe we need 200 stations as well. And suddenly you have even fewer choices at the local level, and those few remaining independent stations are finding it really hard to compete against the scale that these behemoths can offer to advertisers and others.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> Let me just ask you, if power buys voice\u2014and this does look a lot like favor-trading\u2014where does dissent get air, and how do we fight this, and can we continue to fight it, even if the merger goes through?<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> I think we\u2019re going to have to continue to fight it. The first step is to try to push back at the Federal Communications Commission, and public comment is still open, and people can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/\">FreePress.net<\/a>. I urge them to file comments letting the Commission know about their concerns. But ultimately, this is a matter that Congress and others are going to have to look at. That\u2019s going to be one of the key ways to push back here. As we look at, what is it going to take? It doesn\u2019t feel like these conversations are possible in the era of Donald Trump, but they&#8217;re the ones we need to start having now, is what is it going to take to break up some of these media behemoths.<\/p>\n<p>This is absolutely going in the wrong direction, and I think you see a lot of signs. All this concern on the right; you can look at what\u2019s happening in Democratic circles, where suddenly antitrust is at the center of the platforms that they&#8217;re putting out there. We need to start moving in that direction, to stop just rubber-stamping these deals and start demanding that we need more local choices, more local accountability, more support for public and independent alternatives. Because if we just allow these guys to merge and merge and merge, we\u2019ll be stuck with the same cookie-cutter content wherever we go, and it\u2019s going to be very, very conservative, if not reactionary, if somebody doesn\u2019t step in.<\/p>\n<p><b>JJ:<\/b> We\u2019ve been speaking with Craig Aaron from the group Free Press. As he notes, you can find their work, including learning how to talk to the FCC on this merger, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/\">FreePress.net<\/a>. Craig Aaron, thank you so much for joining us this week on <b>CounterSpin<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>CA:<\/b> Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><br \/>\nThis piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/this-is-a-company-that-is-essentially-producing-trump-tv\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janine Jackson interviewed Craig Aaron about Sinclair Broadcasting&#8216;s attempt to buy Tribune Media for the August 11, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Play Stop pop out X MP3jPLAYLISTS.MI_0 = [ { name: &#8220;1. 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