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Billionaire Buyer Turning Another American Newspaper Rightward?
01/19/2024 |
Yesterday I received an alert from a friend in Baltimore to the news that the Baltimore Sun had been bought by a local right-wing activist billionaire. It went like this: |
The Baltimore Sun has been purchased by the executive chairman of the far-rightwing Sinclair Broadcasting empire (headquartered in Maryland), which aims to make the 187-year-old newspaper an echo of Fox News. |
How Sinclair Broadcasting puts a partisan tilt on trusted local news. Video by PBS NewsHour. |
I am DEVASTATED. I grew up with the Sun. My mother and I both had articles published in the Sun. I knew reporters and photographers for the Sun; one of them gave my father's epitaph and wrote my mother's obituary. The Sun was a force against Trump, exposing his lies during his junta...probably why it was targeted. Trump hated Baltimore and I have no doubt that the Sinclair boss is working hand in glove with him - part of his agenda is to expose everything
that's wrong about Baltimore.
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| The Sun wasn't NYT or WP level, but it won many Pulitzers (latest in
2020) and deserves a better end than this. Sick at heart. So much of the muddle and craziness in American politics today is born of media moguls with their agendas to push. Consider |
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impact of Fox News whose titan founder Rupert Murdoch got fined almost $800 million for having committed manifold lies about the 2020 election. |
Can one expect something better from this fellow who is well known for sponsoring far-right activities, pushing Trumpism along with Moms For Liberty (which is currently under the spotlight for its founder, leader of “Don’t Say Gay,” and banishing gay books participating in threesomes with gay women in Florida)?* |
The headquarters of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., in Cockeysville, Maryland. Photo by nearby resident, Rosanna Tufts. Used with permission. |
A recent study by OxFam International found that in 2020, the five richest billionaires possessed $405 billion between them. Today, their worth has more than doubled to $869 billion. Every hour these billionaires get $14 million richer. Meanwhile, since 2020, 60% of the global population has become poorer.** |
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