This action can only be explained by interest in prioritizing the demands of sinclair over the Public Interest. And it also is no surprise that this decision happened just days before he had a meeting with the chairman of sinclair. Every market impacted by this megamerger would experience a reduction in responsive local news due to sinclairs unresponsive topdown approach. Integrating diversity, diminishing our already distorted civic discourse, and devaluing local voices of women and people of color. Today i sent a letter to chairman pai to let him know that blessing a media behemoth such as sinclair would reflect an abject failure on his part to protect the Public Interest and to uphold the f. C. C. s duty to promote localism and diversity. And localism means responsiveness to local interests and local news and local voices. And that is a trust that the f. C. C. Has by its own rules and as a matter of Public Interest. Today we rely more than ever on the internet for so many facets of
As police clash with pro democracy demonstrators trying to clear the streets, aljazeera in the crowd as police moved in to break things up. Canceled flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year, hundreds of flights are scrapped as a major storm bears down on the east coast. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im erica pitzi. Its calmer in ferguson, missouri thanks to stepped up support from the National Guard. 2,000 Missouri National guard assisted riot police as protests turned violent for a second straight night. The man in the center of the controversy is breaking his silence, officer Darren Wilson giving his first t. V. Interview. We are live in ferguson, missouri, again this morning. Police more than prepared tuesday night for another round of protests. Police were ready last night, a very different feel in the town of ferguson. Nonetheless, there were sporadic outbreaks of violence. Angry protests turned violent again overnight in ferguson. The Justice System