The chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group met Donald Trump at the White House during a visit to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to administration officials, the Guardian has learned.
David D Smith, whose company has been criticized for making its anchors read a script echoing Trump’s attacks on the media, said he briefed officials last year on a system that would enable authorities to broadcast direct to any American’s phone.
“I just wanted them to be aware of the technology,” Smith said in an interview. He also recalled an earlier meeting with Trump during the 2016 election campaign, where he told the future president: “We are here to deliver your message.”
Sinclair is the biggest owner of local TV in the US, and may soon reach 72% of American households if a proposed $4bn takeover of a rival is approved by federal regulators. It is accused by critics of having a conservative bias, which it denies.
The company has been a driving force in the development of a new broadcasting standard known as Next Gen TV, and is one of the first involved in making chips for televisions, cellphones and other devices to receive the new transmissions.
A broadcasting industry group, of which Sinclair is a prominent member, lobbied federal authorities last year to force manufacturers to incorporate the chips in all new devices. This would have created orders for millions of chips and probably new revenues for Sinclair.
Are we morphing from corporate media to “state run media?
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If you want to know who is running the media, look at the big sponsors.
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Something is brewing…national security adviser, John Bolton, urged Trump to skip the trip to South America. Does that decision reflect a view in the Oval Office that deeper Russian and Iranian involvement in Syria have complicated calculations about a response to any U.S. military attack? Moscow has cautioned the U.S. not to launch a military attack.
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Does anyone actually KNOW who actually did the deed? Or the rush to judgement against Assad is against him excluding any fringe groups that would make him the fall guy to provoke WW3. Could Russia be throwing Assad under the bus? False Flags are nothing new.
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Yep & yep.
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Mostly sunny here, but breezy…cherry blossoms are dancing and swirling!
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Maple trees budding.
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The ice cream sundae must be stopped.
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Paul Ryan to go. 🙂
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OK, bad news for BIG PHARMA, they have been elevated on Den’s Shit List.
Generic Name: ezetimibe (ez ET i mibe)
Brand Names: Zetia
This tiny pill to reduce cholesterol has put me through serious intestinal HELL!
I have had the squirts all day, all night, for a MONTH! I thought it was associated with the colonoscopy cleaning me out, WRONG! That creation of BIG PHARMA has pages upon pages of ill reports from users, sure it reduces cholesterol but it kills you slowly in the process.
Use this site to determine if there might be a med you take that has killer side effects
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What would your doctor say if asked why Zetia as opposed to a statin?
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Statins are worse
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See the doctor, switch to a different drug.
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Walked up D Street for the first time ever. That route to the Hillside Cafe took 17 minutes.
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Came home during a break in the spring showers.
Day 4: 131+29=160 minutes.
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What is the difference between a good witch and a bad witch?
Which witch is which?
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It’s like you never watched The Wizard of Oz 😉
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In Oz the cardinal directions suffice. But Oz is Very Simple.
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In the other Oz there are over a million feral camels.
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Holy shit:
There are approximately 1 to 1.2 million feral camels in Australia, and their numbers are thought to be doubling every 8-9 years. They occupy an area of approximately 3.3 million square kilometres of rangeland that incorporates many different land tenures.’
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Pete came over, caught up on some things I saved for him the DVR, then we watched a WWII movie, “Stalingrad.”A Russian movie, Russians against the Germans. We set it to have Russians speak English and we read what the Germans said. One of the actors was familiar, Pete looked him up on his smartphone, he’s been in lots of movies we’ve seen. He was in the Jack Black King Kong. I watched that movie a bunch of times, it has dinosaurs in it.
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Russian actor?
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The one that opens in Japan after the earthquake? I’d like to see that again’.
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Sunny again. Temp got up to 52°. Felt warm to Pete and I since we’re so used to cold weather right now. Everyone is yearning for a warm up.
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Far out man:
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