Role of the Media

Except for one splurge: an unusually aggressive — and sustained — offensive against his local newspaper, which he is tearing into as “fake news.”

In a campaign ad running more than two minutes — and appearing not only online, but also on radio and TV — Nunes casts the dominant newspaper in his California district as a “band of creeping correspondents,” criticizing The Fresno Bee for its routine reporting practices and for its coverage of a controversy surrounding a winery in which the Republican congressman invests.

“Sadly, since the last election, The Fresno Bee has worked closely with radical left-wing groups to promote numerous fake news stories about me,” Nunes says in the ad, though he offers no evidence of collusion between The Bee and any group.

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avalon said:

Nunes declares war on the media

Devin Nunes' campaign is airing an attack ad out against his local newspaper.

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deactherunner said:

Latest FCC Vote Could Stall or End Sinclair-Tribune Merger

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The story of how Sinclair's deal ran into trouble, despite its considerable sway in Republican-led Washington, is a tale of stunning hubris, according to officials inside and outside the FCC who watched the drama unfold. The broadcaster needed to sell stations to stay under federal media ownership limits, but instead it aggressively pushed proposals that would have left it in effective control of some of those spun-off outlets — raising alarms at an FCC that had already relaxed some ownership rules to the company's benefit.

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Last month, the Santa Clarita Valley Signal, the only newspaper serving a city of about 200,000 people just north of Los Angeles, was purchased by local husband and wife Richard and Chris Budman.

Shortly thereafter, local residents exposed the couple’s repeated promotion of far-right conspiracy theories—including ones claiming former President Obama was a secret Muslim and ISIS supporter; that there was a “cover-up” in the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich; and that Hillary Clinton ran a child-sex ring out of a D.C. pizza restaurant.

Richard Budman was previously the Signal’s publisher between 2004 and 2007. And now, he and his wife have big plans for the paper: they want to print six days a week instead of five and distribute it for free to 75,000 households.

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PhDeac said:

"will result in somebody getting hurt."

The Capital Gazette shooting was barely a month ago.

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palmab03 said:

that was unrelated to Trump, ya have plenty of actual ammo. You don't need #fakenews.

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