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Billionaire Soros to Become Biggest Stockholder in US Radio Company (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Meanwhile:

Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith.
Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland,[3] the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households) and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW.

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. Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes — the fascists are just projecting their own actions and plans on Soros; the same with every single one of their accusations.

Sleepy Joe? Trump has dementia, and is obese.
Hillary will cause WW3? Trump sold nuclear secrets to the Saudis, and legitimately questioned why we can't simply nuke our enemies.
Hunter Biden's corrupt? Trumps direct family used their nepotism positions to "earn" several hundred million dollars.
Biden's tram is incompetent? Trumps team booked a press conference in front of a landscaping business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And Sinclair, of course, has their own article on this which includes relevant details like:

Soros’s investment represents approximately one-sixteenth of his $6.7 billion net worth, which he has leveraged to donate to liberal policy initiatives and advocacy organizations. The financier used his Open Society Foundations to funnel at least $140 million to political justice and ballot causes in 2021.

and several completely relevant paragraphs on Vice Media to set up the totally necessary last line shamelessly suggesting that this wealthy, liberal Jew is corrupting our country with smut:

Last year, Soros bought Vice Media in a $350 million deal to progress the company’s proclaimed “uniquely differentiated” content highlighting edgy stories. Vice’s former CEO, Shane Smith, allegedly instituted a culture plagued by sexual harassment.

Subsequent company leaders claimed the financier would improve Vice’s substance.

“With the support of our investor group, we now have the resources to strengthen our business, our partnerships and our content creation across all platforms,” then co-CEOs Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala told Variety. “Under new ownership and with this leadership team, Vice is positioned to drive our uniquely differentiated brand of news, entertainment and lifestyle content that makes Vice a trusted brand for global audiences."

Vice has sections on the gender spectrum, drugs and sex with articles informing readers of risqué topics. The outlet has also highlighted illegal drug cafes and MDMA-using doctors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They're the worst