Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Matthews joins Sarah and Matt to break down the history of Sinclair Broadcast Group, its politics, and the regulatory favors that fueled its growth. References: Dylan's piece on the Sinclair media takeover Timothy Burke's Sinclair anchor mashup Alving Chang's piece on Sinclair media, see if your local news station is owned by Sinclair Martin and McCrain's paper on local news and national politics Good Mother Jones piece on Sinclair's local news takeover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That might have been too weedy for the weeds.
0:02.0	["Sing Me Up With Me"]
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:19.0	I'm Matthew Eglaceus.
0:21.0	We have Sarah Cliff in on a rare Friday appearance,
0:24.0	part of our Ezra Cline book leave.
0:27.0	We're getting by.
0:28.0	We're thinking we have to do.
0:29.0	We're shaking things up.
0:30.0	We're shaking things up.
0:31.0	This is better be a good book.
0:32.0	Well, see, the book's never going to be written, right?
0:35.0	The book will be written.
0:36.0	We hope Ezra's having a nice book leave.
0:38.0	We have to do a different book with him eight years ago.
0:41.0	This book is not going to happen.
0:43.0	Also joined by Dylan Matthews coming in from New York.
0:47.0	He can tell us about the other book from eight years ago someday.
0:50.0	But today, we want to talk about local TV news.
0:54.0	I suppose you may have seen if you are on the internet.
0:58.0	This really great video that Timothy Burke at Dead's been put together.
1:02.0	And it is showing basically how this one franchise of local television stations
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