Rusty Muck

Goebbels' radio ministry that fueled propaganda, agitprop and fascist doctrine never called themselves "Nazi Radio" but Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (literally, the "Reich Broadcasting Corporation"). The USSR didn't called their state newspaper "Soviet News Only Today," but Pravda. Same with today's Russia - RT and Sputnik are not going to call themselves the Putin News Service. And Sinclair won't do that either, even with their predilection to Russia and their employment of Osama bin Epshteyn.

But not before Sinclair changes their name to Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft first.

Pai's fait accompli killing of Net Neutrality will thrust the internet into the dark ages... at least in the United States.

Still won't change a damn thing. Sinclair will play the victim card and Republicans will fall for it because Republicans. And Paid Off will let them get all of Tribune Broadcasting with next to no divestures (forget about the DOJ coming in to save the day, cause they won't).

The cynic in me is saying that Sinclair will keep KSTU's IP, place it on the Deerfield-owned LP signal and a KUTV sub, and spin off KSTU's license to Howard Stirik.

Problem is, if Steve Doerr cans his sorry butt, Sinclair will hire him as Sheryl Atkinson's sidekick.

Eat, most wouldn't know until it was pointed out that, oh yeah, that's a picture of DeRay McKesson getting arrested for civil disobedience. That's the point. It IS deceptive and misleading to the people who would follow KBOI on Twitter, and a personal attack on DeRay, who sure as hell didn't deserve this. (DeRay did retweet KBOI's "apology," which shows a lot of graciousness on his part. To me, it has as much value as a used diaper.) People will laugh and say, "oh, Sinclair wouldn't use their power, clout and Republican favoritism as a weapon against anyone they don't agree with." And this is the latest example of why those people just don't get it, and never will. I betcha Sinclair will have Sheryl Atkinson target John Oliver with a slanderous story in the next few weeks. Even if it's made up, as Sheryl has a history of doing, the damage will be done. And with enablers of this misbehavior leading the FCC and DOJ, it will only get worse. Then you wonder if it's not propaganda ... but the early markings of soft fascism.

It's a guy who's a prominent social activist campaigning for police reform - thus, he's a mortal enemy among Republicans. And he grew up in Baltimore... not that far from Hunt Valley. Analogous to this would be if there was a story about opioid addiction and abuse in Cape Girardeau, MO, and a TV station tweets about it with an unflattering picture of Rush Limbaugh (a well-known Oxycotin addict and a Cape Girardeau native). You and I know that if that happened, Rush and every single Republican would condemn the TV station as part of this non-existant "left-wing conspiracy" and frame it as libel.

Nope. Not doctored. [MEDIA=twitter]886032039832674305[/MEDIA]

And it happened TWICE during THE SAME HOUR. [MEDIA=twitter]886036406925234176[/MEDIA] Twice is not an accident.

Yes, Sinclair went there. [MEDIA=twitter]886029644650229760[/MEDIA] They "apologized." Uh-huh. Riiiiiiight. [MEDIA=twitter]886056559129673730[/MEDIA]

I'm sorry, but I really don't really want to see Ben Swann naked.

He started out as one of "Michelangelo's Boys" at CBS in the 1540s.

That's probably the best description of Real Time with Bill Maher I've read thus far.

John Oliver targets a niche audience - liberals who pay extra to watch HBO. His monologue only resonated with them... and no one else.

How does Sinclair "die?" It can't. It won't. You and I all know that dirty little secret. Even if a group manages to force all advertisers to boycott from any and all Sinclair news programming indefinitely, Sinclair would fill the airtime with political ads, especially in battleground states. They'll have their cult to further brainwash the John Q. Bumpkins of the world, and be an imposing terminal cancer on this country, like Fox News and talk radio were.

Saddam Epystein might want to post his videos on a platform where they can't be rated or commented on.

Give Mark Hyman a wig and dress.

Might I suggest Osama or Saddam?

And feckless Aljti I. M. Paid Off will accept a few hundred from the Smith Clan and expedite the Tribune takeover even more quickly.

Subheadline for that story: One America News Network has been floated as a possible landing spot. So basically ... Greta's ready to leave TV.

Welp... WHAG changed call letters on July 1st... to WDVM. I'd laugh if a Nexstar-TEGNA deal were to go through eventually.

Also see how KALB managed to get a badly needed logo revamp when Gray took control. I'll give Gray quite a bit of credit; they manage to overhaul acquired station logos without having them look like jokes (**cough** WEWS **cough** WFXT **cough**)

"Special series" more often than not means a limited run. IMO. Plus maybe they are starting to build up a new, different library of documentaries to run on weekend nights and finally retire "Lockup."

If Hugh managed to tone down the wonky stuff, it would become 30 minutes of Cleveland Browns talk, and nobody really wants that.