When Words Don’t Matter Anymore
On message.
Posted on May 9, 2017
Trump-Friendly Sinclair’s Takeover Of Tribune TV Stations Brought To You By Trump’s FCC Chairman
By Free Press
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation’s largest television-station conglomerate, is set to get even larger, according to media reports over the weekend that it will soon finalize a deal to buy Tribune Media.
This massive media merger would add 42 Tribune stations to the Sinclair empire, including stations in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver and several other top-20 markets.
Sinclair already owns 173 stations blanketing many other major cities, such as Baltimore, Minneapolis, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., as well several stations in key electoral states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
If this deal is approved, the resulting conglomerate would be able to broadcast programming to 69.4 percent of the U.S. population.
Posted on May 8, 2017
Report: Steve Harvey Cowardly Screws Chicago Staff
By Boyce Watkins/YouTube
“Steve never even addressed the staff about it. He never said a word about them all losing their jobs. These are die-hard loyal staff members. Staff was told by the Executive Producer, not Steve. The EP said that Steve would talk to them and then he never did. Not even an email saying ‘thanks for what you do,’ or ‘good luck.'”
Posted on May 5, 2017
Trump’s FCC Chair Continues To Shaft The Public, Offer Major Handouts To Big Media
By Free Press
During its April open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission under Trump appointee Ajit Pai passed a number of measures favored by large telecommunications and broadcast conglomerates, including a decision to eliminate price caps on broadband services provided to essential community institutions and one to reinstate an outdated broadcast ownership rule favored by station conglomerates seeking to expand their media holdings beyond federally mandated limits.
Posted on April 21, 2017
Vizio To Pay $2.2 Million To Settle Charges It Secretly Collected Viewing Histories On 11 Million Users
By The Federal Trade Commission
VIZIO, Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers and sellers of internet-connected “smart” televisions, has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent.
The stipulated federal court order requires VIZIO to prominently disclose and obtain affirmative express consent for its data collection and sharing practices, and prohibits misrepresentations about the privacy, security or confidentiality of consumer information they collect. It also requires the company to delete data collected before March 1, 2016, and to implement a comprehensive data privacy program and biennial assessments of that program.
Posted on February 7, 2017
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter! A Gift To Trump?
Losing The Argument By Suppressing It
“Pie loves a good protest but a recent protest at Berkeley Uni has got on his tits.”
Posted on February 6, 2017
The Trews: How Did Trump’s Muslim Ban Happen?
By Russell Brand
Whatever you’re preventing by doing this, it’s not death.
Posted on February 3, 2017
The Trews About Chelsea Manning, John McCain & Bill O’Reilly
By Russell Brand
John McCain “assumes” people died because of Chelsea Manning’s revelations; the truth says otherwise. But what about the death and destruction Manning exposed? Unasked and unanswered.
Posted on January 30, 2017
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter! Make The Air Fair
24 Hours With The Esquire Network
Bars And Cars
“NBCUniversal will shutter Esquire Network’s linear cable channel and relaunch the brand as a digital-only platform, Variety has learned.”
Here’s what you’ll miss:
5 p.m.: NCIS: Los Angeles
6 p.m.: NCIS: Los Angeles
7 p.m.: GoldenEye
9:30 p.m.: Car Matchmaker
Posted on January 18, 2017