"Baltimore Sun returns to local ownership; Life-long Marylander purchases local paper"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

As reported by the Sinclair-owned affiliate in DC. It always has time for Jason Miyares.

They get right to the point in the first sentence.

Baltimore Sun returns to local ownership; Life-long Marylander purchases local paper

by David Johns
Mon, January 15th 2024



Baltimore Sun returns to local ownership; Life-long Marylander purchases local paper (WBFF)

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Executive Chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group David Smith announced Monday he has purchased the Baltimore Sun.

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Television station owner, accomplished writer, and columnist Armstrong Williams is also an investor in the new company.

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[2naSalit]

1. Cool!

Local papers are dying. This is good news.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Uhhh, maybe.

If The Sun starts running “Mallard Fillmore” and “Funky Winkerbean,” look out.

[Deep State Witch]

3. No, It Isn't

Sinclair Media, which is based in Cockeysville, is an extreme right wing news outlet. They've bought up a lot of local news stations and turned them into mouthpieces for the GQP.

A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."[5][6] The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

[2naSalit]

4. Agreed...

I posted that before I realized that it was Sinclair! It's definitely NOT a good thing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. "Mail Tribune back in local hands."

Also Sinclair, but in Medford, Oregon

Business and Labor

Who Owns Your Local News? Rosebud Media and Sinclair Broadcasting Each Invest In 'The Medford Experiment'

Jefferson Public Radio | By April Ehrlich
Published July 16, 2019 at 6:41 PM PDT

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