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Looks like Jimmy Kim alive is dead.

It's an Occam's Razor situation.

It's exactly what it looks like.

Like a splash of government intimidation

mixed with a dollop of media consolidation,

a toxic brew.

Nexar has all of this pending business

before the government.

Tecna also does. And there's another big station owner called Sinclair that also has business pending before the government.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Michael Loinger.

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