[arca_vorago]

FCC doesnt seem like it's protecting consumers. I think if I were POTUS I'd be using this section of its mandate.

"Communications during emergencies and crisis must be available for public safety, health, defense, and emergency personnel, as well as all consumers in need. The Nation's critical communications infrastructure must be reliable, interoperable, redundant, and rapidly restorable."

The honest thing is that the FCC has already shown itself to be a problem by allowing the media mergers and aquisitions in the first place, and the people who made those decisions should be held to account as far as the statue of limitations allows, but also should the institution (preferably by congress).

I'm starting to get really tired of "independent" government agencies being at the heart of root problems.

[KZeillmann]

Were you under the impression that an Ajit Pai-led FCC would be intent on protecting consumers?

[craftyguy]

I don't think anyone was under that impression. But there are literally no solutions to the Ajut problem that any of us can contribute to.

[sjg007]

I think Trump is probably supportive of Sinclair. The promote a pro Trump message and have a conservative bias.

[actsasbuffoon]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn

Boris Alexandrovich Epshteyn (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Эпштейн; born August 14, 1982) is a Russian-born American Republican political strategist, investment banker, and attorney. He is currently the Chief Political Analyst at Sinclair Broadcast Group. He was a senior advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States, and previously worked on the McCain-Palin campaign. Following Trump's election, he was named director of communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, and then assistant communications director for surrogate operations in the administration, until he resigned in March 2017.

TL;DR: The guy in charge of political programming for Sinclair worked for Trump, both on the campaign and in the white house.

[sjg007]

This shit is way more serious than I expected.