David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city's media (AP, 1/15/24). Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the largest owners of television stations in...
Let’s see how many days his alleged “private ownership” of the Sun takes to turn them into another regressive media turdfactory.
Remember in 2018 when sinclair forced hundreds of TV broadcasters to air pro-trump fake news bullshit? The same incident mentioned in Fair’s article above? Yeah. YEAH. That feels like just a little flex in hindsight.
I’m guessing less than 60 days personally.