On MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, viewers were subjected to several painful minutes of self-indulgent whining over the purchase of The Baltimore Sun by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Media don’t especially appreciate losing control of an outlet.
Watch as Stelter lays out the case for why the sale of The Sun is such a terrible thing:
BRIAN STELTER: So what’s gonna happen to it now, Alex? I fear this is likely the end of the Sun as a nonpartisan, widely trusted, outlet. And there’s gonna have to be alternatives to pop up in its place. Because when these sorts of right-wing backers of media talk, they talk in code. When they say fair, what they really mean is, “we think the press is too liberal”. When they say balanced, what they mean is “we want the media to advance our political agenda, but cloak it in an…
