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Antidote to generations, they believe of biased news from the other side and as sin clair said yesterday in its statement, they said look, what we're saying is there's a lot of unsubstantiated fake news out there and we're here to keep our eye on it. does that hold water for you? >> another thing that they mentioned in that memo was saying -- mentioning stories like pizza gate which was a bogus conspiracy theory. i don't think anyone in the news media if anchors said we're not going to run unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on tv. i think the problem was when sin clair started saying news org...

To come to the united states decided he wanted to control the country and control what americans believed that would be a pretty good place to start, wouldn't it? >> i think there's nothing wrong with this white house or political campaigns to look to local news and try to reach viewers in that way. it came out after the 2016 election is you had jared kushner suggesting that there was some kind of deal made with sin clair in which they would give more access to sin clair stations and get maybe less tough coverage or less scrutiny and more unfiltered interviews airing on sin clair stations. the...

That voted for donald trump. if their acquisition of tribune media goes through they'll own about 230 stations and have penetration about 72% of households in the united states. so what's got a lot of people concerned about this is not just that tribune is owning a lot of stations but also that tribune is known to force local stations around the country to people would assume are being run by people in their communities. this can include segments that push a conservative line. it includes commentary by former trump official and in addition, they're forcing news anchors to read these promos tha...

Telling local newscasts what to put in their broadcasts and it's frustrated a lot of stations for a couple of years. in seattle and washington, d.c., news channels, local stations have said that they felt coverage got slanted once sin clair took over, once they exerted this type of heavy hand nationally on what they were supposed to be doing locally. >> well, you know, michael, you talked about the pugh poll but i'm sure you've known this and a lot of people that are media watchers have always known, the most trusted people in news really are those local news anchors. donald trump is always ob...