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American broadcasting has always been closely intertwined with American politics

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate professor, communication and journalism, University of Maine
Louisiana's populist politician Huey Long, giving an address on CBS Radio in 1934Louisiana State University, CC BY-SA

Local television viewers around the United States were recently alerted to a “troubling trend” that’s “extremely dangerous to democracy.”

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of America’s dominant...

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