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in some of this rhetoric. weve come a long way from that meeting. remember that publicized meeting he talked about how he wanted to have a bill of love and, of course, blew that up a couple days later talking about immigrants. this is a president not characterized by his consistency or good taste or judgment. >> and in the meantime, you have sinclair broadcasting, and theyre taking a lot of heat over this video showing local anchors parroting exactly the same thing, this script that they wer...

Now we have a presidency that is trying to stifle the free press, trying to stifle the people who can be a check or challenge to the president. and here we have sinclair broadcasting that is very tight with the administration, where frankly, jared kushner and others have said that weve struck deals and weve given favorable treatment to sinclair. what im concerned about is that there isnt a diversity of views. let the anchors, if these views are so, have so much merit, let the anchors come to tho...

With host sean hannity down in florida. another post, lou dobbs reportedly has a direct line to the west wing. the daily beast reports the president has patched in dobbs to multiple meetings in the oval office so he can offer his two cents. trump will ask dobbs for his opinion before and after his senior aides or cabinet members have spoken. occasionally he will cut off an official so the fox business host can jump in. amazing. meanwhile, the president defended another media organization this mo...

Came out of his mouth on sunday, you can understand why you dont want independent fact checkers. but at least for sinclair viewers, it really is a disservice to them. and you do wonder how long those local news readers are going to put up with it, and whether some of them are going to leave for greener pastures. >> well, i knew a lot of people quit when they saw sinclair coming. the round table is sticking with us. up next, these three will tell me something i dont know. youre watching "hardball...

Playing our country. >> plaguing our country. >> sharing biased and false news has become all too common on social media. more alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts first. >> the sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. more alarming, some media outlets accomplish the same things that simply arent crew true without checking facts first. unfortunately to push their own personal bias. this is extremely dangerous to our ...

>> bill, i was a local television anchor for close to 20 years. i know a lot of these people in this promo, they are good quality journalists and proud of their work. i mean, is this a problem when you have a corporation coming down to the local level and telling these anchors what to say? thats not necessarily how the editorial process worked in the many different stations that i worked in when i was in local television. >> no, whats interesting about this, its the anchor is the most prominent ...

Across the country with the same sort of impact and not letting any individual think for themselves its -- and saying its biased and prejudice and fake news, all of that is a trump message and this is a company that we know made a deal with the trump administration -- the campaign during the election to get special coverage. the whole thing is off putting. for people who really understand how media works, its really a disturbing trend. >> didnt it put these local anchors in a very difficult posi...

Livelihoods, whats even worse, sinclair is angling to buy tribune media which will add vastly to the coverage and theyll have many of these more stations like this, the reach will be basically nationwide, theyll have 70% covered by the local station. they are going to have enormous impact and the anchors will not have that many places to go. a lot of jobs will be swept up by sinclair media. >> and there is a lot of good reporting done in many of these stations, i can tell you that firsthand. let...

Not necessarily -- >> and also the president has accused amazon of not paying taxes. five years ago that was true. but now they are actually paying taxes in 45 different states. >> and we can unpack what donald trump has said against jeff bezos and the "washington post." the way i siee it, is this a president who doesnt like the "washington post" reporting facts and news about the president that are unflattering to him. and so he is using his power state power, government power, whether it be th...

Antipathy for bezos and the "washington post" for a long time. a lot of that is the political coverage. his criticism that it pays taxes differently than other retailers, that fits in a line ever criticism that amazon has taken for years. under the obama administration, there was a bipartisan push to change the way internet retailers not just amazon pay taxes on sales sort of across the country. so it is not as though the president is coming from some wildly outside the mainstream position here....