• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    this is a Fox affiliate, which is a pretty conservative news source, but less conservative than Fox News proper,

    That’s not really how it works…

    If it was an affiliate someone like Sinclair owns it and operates under Fox, like a franchise.

    Fox still owns this one, so the Murdocha control it directly. But the level of influence exerted varies.

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      13 days ago

      Feel free to elaborate further here; I was just going for a quick one-line summary. The finer points of American media ownership are truly Lovecraftian.

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        It’s one company masquerading as several. It’s an as close to an absolute monopoly as you could get. It might even beat out Nestle or Pepsi co

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        Feel free to elaborate further here

        There’s not really anything else, or I’d probably have said it already…

        Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions. Like, if you want to learn about stuff, asking questions is a pretty important part of the proces