Jared Kushner: Trump Campaign Struck Deal With Sinclair Broadcast Group For Better Media Coverage

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by Justin Baragona | 1:14 pm, December 17th, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law told a group of executives yesterday that the Trump campaign came to a deal with the Sinclair Broadcast Group to get better press coverage.

According to Politico, Jared Kushner stated that the campaign offered the media group access to the candidate and campaign and, in return, Sinclair would broadcast Trump interviews without commentary. Kushner pointed out that SBG’s reach was greater in areas like Ohio than CNN’s.

In response, Sinclair’s vice president of news, Scott Livingston, said that they offered extended interviews to both Trump and Hillary Clinton, and Clinton didn’t take them up on the offer.

“Our promise was to give all candidates an opportunity to voice their position share their position with our viewers. Certainly we presented an opportunity so that Mr. Trump could clearly state his position on the key issues,” Livingston said. “Our commitment to our viewers is to go beyond podium, beyond the rhetoric. We’re all about tracking the truth and telling the truth and that’s typically missing in most political coverage.”

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[Gman]

1. I'm surprised they had to cut any deal

Sinclair is notorious for their extreme right wing bias.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. Which tells me that this line from their veep of news

is an outright lie: "We’re all about tracking the truth and telling the truth and that’s typically missing in most political coverage.”

[elleng]

3. 'In response, Sinclairs vice president of news, Scott Livingston, said that they offered

extended interviews to both Trump and Hillary Clinton, and Clinton didn’t take them up on the offer.'

[SunSeeker]

5. Trump didn't take them up on the offer either--before the election.

But now, Trump cut a deal to allow Trump to talk without station commentary, i.e. no fact checking. In other words, he turned Sinclair into Trump TV.
You think that is a good thing? You think Hillary should do that?

[elleng]

7. HRC should have taken them up on the offer before the election.

Now?

[SunSeeker]

8. Why? Trump didn't. There were plenty of right wing outfits,with more viewers.

She did go on Fox News, and did a long interview with Chris Wallace on July 31, 2016, with no preconditions about not questioning what she says, not like this Sinclair travesty.

Interesting how all you took away from this story is to fling criticism at Hillary.

[elleng]

9. I am NOT 'all you,'

I am myself, and it is just foolish to NOT take advantage of an opportunity such as sinclair offered. Who cares what trump did? Maybe of interest:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512659125

Quoting POTUS yesterday:

'What I've said is that I can maybe give some counsel advice to the Democratic Party. And I think the -- the -- the thing we have to spend the most time on -- because it's the thing we have most control over -- is, how do we make sure that we're showing up in places where I think Democratic policies are needed, where they are helping, where they are making a difference, but where people feel as if they're not being heard?

And where Democrats are characterized as coastal, liberal, latte- sipping, you know, politically correct, out-of-touch folks, we have to be in those communities. And I've seen that, when we are in those communities, it makes a difference. That's how I became president. I became a U.S. Senator not just because I had a strong base in Chicago, but because I was driving downstate Illinois and going to fish fries and sitting in V.F.W. Halls and talking to farmers.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/12/16/transcript-obamas-end-of-year-news-conference-on-syria-russian-hacking-and-more/?utm_term=.a3f6a252e8bf

[SunSeeker]

10. There were better TV opportunities than Sinclair offered and she took them.

Fox is beamed into all those Chicago VFW halls and farmers' homes. Sinclair, not so much.

What POTUS said about Hillary, as opposed to your quoted comments about what Dems should do going forward, was that she was not treated fairly. And that unfair treatment continues, as your Hillary bashing demonstrates, calling her "foolish" for not agreeing to go on a small time right wing nut's TV program.

[elleng]

11. Her handlers were foolish.

I have not bashed any candidates. Facts, however, are important.

"I said Clinton was in trouble with the voters I represent. Democrats didn’t listen."

By Debbie Dingell November 10
Debbie Dingell, a Democrat, represents Michigan’s 12th Congressional District in the House.

I was the crazy one. I predicted that Hillary Clinton was in trouble in Michigan during the Democratic primary. I observed that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination for president. And at Rotary clubs, local chambers of commerce, union halls and mosques, I noted that we could see a Trump presidency. “That’s Debbie, it’s hyperbole, she is nuts.”

It’s now our reality , and as Americans we need to understand why. My district reflects much of this country’s diversity. Ann Arbor is a university- and start-up town. Ypsilanti is urban, and its issues mirror those of larger cities such as Detroit and Chicago. Dearborn is headquarters to Ford Motor Co. and has the largest Muslim population in the country. The “Downrivers” — a collection of communities south of Detroit — mean auto plants and manufacturing with strong union membership.

Much of the district is Democratic and those voters strongly supported Bernie Sanders in the primary. That result didn’t surprise me, but it did infuriate me that Clinton and her team didn’t show up until the weekend before the primary, when it suddenly became clear they had a problem. I took Bill Clinton grocery shopping that Saturday — too little, way too late. They never stopped on a campus; never went to a union hall; never talked to the Arab American community. Sanders was in my district 10 times during the primary. How would any sane person not predict how this one would go? It was fixable for the general election.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-said-clinton-was-in-trouble-with-the-voters-i-represent-democrats-didnt-listen/2016/11/10/0e9521a6-a796-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?utm_term=.5801b2400194

[emulatorloo]

14. So were the BoB's in Ann Arbor.

But I must admit I'm not sure how either foolish group relates to the collusion between Ivanka's husband and Sinclair Broadcasting.


As you may remember, Sinclair aired a virulent anti-Obama 'Special' on the eve of election 2012.

Sinclair also aired a lie-filled Swiftboating 'Special' called "Stolen Honor" about John Kerry on the eve of election 2004.

Ohio Viewers Hit By Anti-Obama TV 'Special' On Election Eve
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ohio-viewers-hit-by-anti-obama-tv-special-on-election-eve

Sinclair Broadcast Group and the "Stolen Honor" Documentary
https://www2.gwu.edu/~action/2004/media/sinclair.html

Bottom line:

I would not believe Scott Livingston if his tongue came notarized regarding "offers" Sinclair allegedly made to Hillary.

All evidence from the past indicates he was acting in bad faith.

[SunSeeker]

16. Hillary lost because of James Comey.

Yes, facts are important.

As Sam Wang noted, Comey's late-October letter moved opinion 4 points toward Trump. About half of this stuck, which was enough:



http://election.princeton.edu/2016/12/10/the-comey-effect/
https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/807943268529041414



Then the second letter, instead of ameliorating the damage done by the first, just fired up Trump voters. As Nate Silver found, late-deciding voters (those deciding in the last week before the election) broke strongly against Clinton in swing states, enough to cost her MI/WI/PA.




https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/807986531243819008/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hillary-clinton-james-comey-fbi-letter-cost-election-a7468831.html


I see you can't keep your Hillary bashing to Postmortem.

None of this has anything to do with this OP, which is about Trump cutting a "no questioning" TV deal with Sinclair. It takes some kind of Hillary hate to find an excuse to bash her in this OP about Trump killing the First Amendment.

[emulatorloo]

13. Translation: "the only thing you took away from this story is to fling criticism at Hillary."

Poster is talking about you the individual and your response to this story.

You seem to be confusing what he said with the phrase "you all", with indicates a group.

Cheers and best regards.

[SunSeeker]

17. Correct. nt

[canetoad]

4. What is becoming clear

About DFT, his spawn and their appendices is that the fucking DEAL is everything. They seem to get a thrill out of the actual mechanics of the DEAL and thrive on them.

What they don't do is any long term thinking; about the consequences, who is going to be hurt or damaged down the line or how it might play out on the national or world stage. I think their fucking deals are dangerous obsessions.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. This might be what Conway was blathering about

she was talking about specific way to get Trump's message out to people. Something about a tower of sound, I dunno, and stressing control the messge, etc.
but, from the above, I am getting sense he is looking for a way to actually avoid MSM news coverage.
Really do not like the implications of that, and yet, he is dong it already, with his holding so many meetings in private, and his wanting to avoid official record of his contacts and phone calls, his not wanting to discuss his businesses, not holding press conferences.

[truthisfreedom]

12. Did this violate the equal time rules?

[emulatorloo]

15. Anybody remember Sinclair's "Stolen Honor" anti-Kerry hit piece they showed on election eve 2004?

Or their anti-Obama hit piece they showed on election eve 2012?

Of course they would be happy to collude with Trump.

“Our commitment to our viewers is to go beyond podium, beyond the rhetoric. We’re all about tracking the truth and telling the truth and that’s typically missing in most political coverage.”

That's UNMITIGATED BULLSHIT.