Be very worried about what is goin on at Sinclair broasdcasting.

[slater71]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/19/sinclair-broadcast/2819599/

Look at the amount of TV stations they have bought up. Sinclair and Clear channel already own most of the am radio stations and now they are buying up the TV stations. We all know what happens when one party owns all the media. That is what they are quietly doing as we are looking over here.

[gopiscrap]

1. Can't they get chopped for being a monopoly

part of the problem is that there is news about this.

[yourout]

3. Good luck with that. Obama is no Teddy Roosevelt.

[gopiscrap]

5. Sad to say, you're absolutely right.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. They could...if there was a law against it.

Used to be a law...us boomers remember when Bell Teleephone was a monopoly, and was forced to break up.
And there was a law against owning more than medium in an area..you could not own a radio or tv station AND a newspaper,
or more than one radio station.
Corporations got those laws changed.

[MattSh]

8. People can play Monopoly, but they can't be a monopoly...

And remember, companies are people.

[Snotcicles]

2. Another Thank You, shout out to Bill Clinton. nt

[davekriss]

4. Yup

The Telecommunications Act of 1996. A horrendous piece of legislation that opened the floodgates to monopolization of the major media.

Now 5 corporations own 98% of all major media channels. If you don't think that that near monopoly helps our overlords control to their advantage framing and messaging to the general public, well then I have a bridge here to sell to you. (This barb is not directed to Snotcicles, who via his allusion to the TCA suggests he/she is well aware of the issues.)

[Loudly]

7. Don't forget Salem. They're a goddamned brainwashing machine.

And with a far greater reach than Sinclair.