By Free Press

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Sinclair Broadcast Group “engaged in misrepresentation and/or lack of candor” with the agency when it was seeking approval of its $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media Co. in 2018, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Tribune Media withdrew from the proposed merger last August, after the FCC releases a Hearing Designation Order, in which the agency criticized Sinclair for misrepresenting its plan to transfer control of several television stations to shell companies set up by the broadcaster.
“The record raises significant questions as to whether those proposed divestitures were in fact ‘sham’ transactions,” according to the order.

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Posted on June 27, 2019

By Code3Life via YouTube

I was expecting the worst, and boy did it deliver.

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Posted on June 25, 2019

By Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole/The Conversation

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has introduced a new rule in its advertising code which bans adverts which feature gender stereotypes “that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offense.”
This is a welcome step towards challenging the everyday normality of patriarchy in popular culture. But gender stereotypes in advertising cannot be untangled from human oppression of other animals. Consuming other animals is normalized in our culture, so those sorts of “stereotypes that are likely to cause harm” go unnoticed, and aren’t usually judged to have caused “serious or widespread offense.”

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Posted on June 19, 2019

This is motherfucking journalism (almost) better than the greatest sex you’ve ever had. This is also the way the “real” news should be delivered. After all, everything he said was true – and explained in a way that is far superior than traditional television reports (or crappy cable reports).

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Posted on June 17, 2019

By Sunday Night

“Some of these shows have the ethics of a cash register.”

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Posted on June 12, 2019

By Ruth Deller/The Conversation

Fifty-six years after ITV first aired its landmark 7 Up documentary, 12 of the 14 men and women first seen as seven-year-old children in 1964 have returned to share the story of their lives in one of the most influential experimental television documentaries.
63 Up is the ninth installment in a series originally designed as a one-off special made by Granada as part of ITV’s World in Action strand. The original was based on the famous Jesuit motto: “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.”

Using interviews and footage of the seven-year-olds at play together, the program explored issues of class and aspiration. The 14 children were selected from different backgrounds and talked on camera about their ambitions, feelings, values and experiences. Among the production team was a young researcher, Michael Apted.

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Posted on June 6, 2019

Midnight: Universal Alley Jazz Jam
1 a.m.: Community News & Information
7 a.m.: Democracy Now!
8 a.m.: Black Panther Party
10 a.m.: 31st Annual Black Nurses Day
Noon: Full Circle TV Show

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Posted on May 28, 2019

By Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Marquee Sports Network announced Michael McCarthy as general manager Tuesday. As a key member of the network’s senior leadership team, McCarthy will be responsible for driving the success of the Marquee Sports Network, set to launch in February 2020 in partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
McCarthy served as president of MSG Network, where he was responsible for revenue and content across all platforms, winning over 75 Emmy Awards and helping launch the careers of nationally known broadcasters such as Mike Breen, Gus Johnson and Doris Burke.
McCarthy also served as vice chairman and CEO of the St. Louis Blues and was the COO of the Milwaukee Bucks. Since last August, McCarthy has served as a consultant to the Chicago Cubs in the evaluation and formation of the Marquee Sports Network launch strategy.

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Posted on May 22, 2019

Make This Real, Please

“[A] moving, funny, and aspirational vision of what media might look like if it were not . . . ‘whitewashed and biased,’ and rather more creative and reflective of the world we live in and the history that shaped it,” says Artnet News.

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Posted on May 20, 2019

By Eoin Higgins/Common Dreams

A new report released Monday by Media Matters For America found that not a single day went by in the first four months of 2019 when the “hard news” arm of Fox News didn’t lie to its audience.
Fox has long assured viewers and advertisers that the network’s news and opinion wings are fundamentally different. But, as Media Matters president Angelo Carusone explained in a statement, that isn’t really based in fact.
“Fox News likes to tout the ‘hard news’ side of its operation, setting up a false distinction between its right-wing prime-time hosts and its news anchors,” said Carusone. “The network pushes this fictional division as a defense against those who flag the propaganda, lies, conspiracy theories, and bigotry pervading the network.”

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Posted on May 13, 2019