FCC Renews Sinclair’s Baltimore TV Licenses Despite Complaint from Petitioner Who Died Waiting

But the five-year fight ain't over just yet...

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Sue Wilson,
8/13/2025 -
10:05 am PT

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Trump’s FCC on Precipice of Ending All Limits on Corporate Control of Local TV News Stations

Nation's largest broadcaster orders all of its TV newsrooms to run deceptive deregulatory campaign as 'news'. But you can push back!...

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Sue Wilson,
4/23/2025 -
6:35 am PT

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Sue Wilson,
10/14/2022 -
11:00 am PT

3 Comments

SCOTUS Approves FCC Rule Allowing Further Consolidation of Local Media Outlets

Under Trump, the federal agency created a Catch-22 on new rule by requiring private research to counter hidden public data...

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Sue Wilson,
4/12/2021 -
9:35 am PT

1 Comment

Why Does the FCC Allow Sinclair Broadcasting to Violate Station Ownership Rules in Baltimore?

An investigation of FCC, SEC documents in a citizen-filed 'Petition to Deny' licensing for three stations controlled by the media behemoth may finally help put an end to the 'sham' control of our public airwaves...

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Sue Wilson,
9/23/2020 -
11:03 am PT

4 Comments

Impeachment by Radio

The elephant in the room is not the GOP...

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Sue Wilson,
2/14/2020 -
11:15 am PT

4 Comments

Fakebook: Zuckerberg’s Hands-Off Political Ad Policy Undermines American Democracy Itself

$10 billion should buy a lot of fact-checking on his social media platform. Instead it empowers the fake news he claims to oppose...

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Sue Wilson,
10/25/2019 -
9:35 am PT

1 Comment

Internet Freedom of Speech at Stake

FCC is poised to kill Net Neutrality"¦and it will be a horror show"¦again"¦

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Sue Wilson,
12/13/2017 -
9:13 am PT

1 Comment

The ‘Public Interest’ Still Lives

How I took on a major media conglomerate for abusing our public airwaves and challenged the FCC to do its job -- and (mostly) won...

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Sue Wilson,
4/5/2017 -
10:20 am PT

4 Comments

Trump and Cruz: Will Somebody Sue, Already?

One of them could do us all a great favor by holding broadcasters accountable in a way that We the People cannot...

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Sue Wilson,
2/26/2016 -
10:05 am PT

3 Comments

Scott Walker and GOP Turning First Amendment Rights Upside Down

The FCC's blow to free speech rights you probably never heard about, and how, if Republicans have their way, it may get even worse...

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Sue Wilson,
5/19/2015 -
9:35 am PT

6 Comments

FCC: No More Equal Time Requirements for Political Campaign Supporters Over Our Public Airwaves

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Sue Wilson,
5/14/2014 -
6:05 am PT

23 Comments

‘McCutcheon’ Mints Millions for Mass Media

U.S. Supreme Court ruling 'opens floodgates' even wider for political spending and an MSM windfall...

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Sue Wilson,
4/4/2014 -
6:05 am PT

1 Comment

Who Controls the Corporate Media Message?

--
Sue Wilson,
3/5/2014 -
7:35 am PT

15 Comments

The Agitprop of Ajit Pai: The Republican FCC Commissioner Calls Out the Troops

--
Sue Wilson,
2/27/2014 -
11:06 am PT

5 Comments

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Parents of Sandy Hook victims awarded $965M in second trial against radio hoaxster, but FCC has taken no action against his broadcast lies...

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