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Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:19 AM PDT
GAIL Recruitment Online Application Form is invited by Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) for a latest notification to fill up 151 new vacancies for S-5 and S-3 grade posts names are Foreman, Chemist, Superintendent and Assistant. Suitable and capable job grabbers are suggested to apply for this chance of job by applying soon. Dedicated and best fit individuals must apply online on or
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:35 PM PDT
KPSC Exam Date On this webpage Karnataka Public Service Commission has announced a notice in PDF file for the declaration of KPSC Exam Date. As soon as possible KPSC will commence the exams for available vacancies. The KPSC Exam Schedule will be announced for job connected exams. Qualified candidates will appear in Karnataka Public Service Commission exams but before that check their KPSC Exam
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT
ICDS Tamilnadu Recruitment Integrated Child Development Services, Tamilnadu has scattered an opportunity of job through a notice for fill up 1605 vacancies for the posts of Anganwadi Main Worker, Anganwadi Mini Worker and Anganwadi Helper. Goal oriented and dynamic job seekers are suggested to send offline application on or before final date. Only prescribed format of application form is
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:35 PM PDT
RRC Jaipur Recruitment Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC), Jaipur that is North western railway (NWR) has announced a latest advertisement to recruit the dynamic sports person for vacant 21 vacancies for Group ‘C’ categories posts of level 4/5 and level 2/3. Closely filled applications are invited by capable and energetic aspirants latest by dead line. Job grabbers who have required sport
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:25 PM PDT
Kerala High Court Recruitment High Court of Kerala has some vacant posts for which an advertisement is released for filling up of 35 openings for the posts of Personal Assistant (Grade II) to Judge in the mostly courts of the home state. Dedicated and optimistic participants must submit online application now by checking eligibilities. To grab this chance of careers each and every suitable
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:11 PM PDT
Rajasthan Police Constable Recruitment Duly filled application form is invited through online from physical fit and driving license having candidates for fill up 13583 vacancies for the posts of Constable Bharti by Rajasthan Police Department not later than final date. This opportunity is quite big therefore get ready to beat the challenge in the exam.  Each and every willing aspirant is
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:55 PM PDT
ICDS Recruitment Duly filled application form is invited by Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, Tirunelveli for a big opportunity of careers on vacant 1605 vacancy for the posts of Main Anganwadi Worker, Minim Anganwadi Worker and Anganwadi Helper. Capable applicants should apply now on or before final date. Completely eligible and excited applicants are suggested to visit the
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:05 AM PDT
FCI Recruitment Food Corporation of India (FCI), Government of India has released a fresh advertisement of jobs for fill up vacant 522 vacancies of  watchman posts in different region like as Chhattisgarh, Kolkata and several others. Deserving and hard working aspirants are suggested to apply online on or before dead line. Excited and willing applicants should visit official website of Food
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:11 AM PDT
Telangana Forest Beat Officer Syllabus PDF Dear candidates if you are searching for the Telangana Forest Beat Officer Syllabus in PDF with its Exam Pattern Details then finally you have reached at right place because in this article ejobhub team going to announce all the necessary information which is reflected for upcoming job exam. Telangana State Government (Telangana Public Service
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:42 AM PDT
How Positivity Helps In Career Growth (Job) The world which is visible in one single part is the result of Positive thinking. The best to growth in the careers can be found with positive thinking. Here in this article we are discussing How Positive Thinking Can Help You in Your Career. Implementing positivity in the workplace means making a suitable atmosphere that is relatively pleasant and
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:30 AM PDT
जानिए रेलवे वेटिंग टिकेट कन्फर्म होगा या नहीं वेटिंग में टिकेट होना अपने आप में बहुत बड़ी परेशानी है क्योंकि वैसे तो तीन माह पहले ही टिकेट बुक करवा सकते है लेकिन फिर भी हमेशा ऐसा नहीं होता कि हम इतना पहले से यात्रा के लिए योजना बना लें। ऐसे में आपको जब एन वक़्त पर यात्रा करनी हो या फिर कुछ समय पहले ही आपकी कहीं जाने की योजना बन जाये तो हम यह सोचकर टिकेट करवा लेते है कि वेटिंग में है तो क्या हुआ
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:07 AM PDT
CGBSE 10th Supplementary Time Table Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education is planning to conduct class X exams for all eligible students. Before exemption all appearing students need to download CGBSE 10th Supplementary Time Table to begin their preparation for class 10th exam perfectly. For grab complete information regarding CGBSE 10th Supplementary time table, you must read this article
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:35 AM PDT
Government Jobs in India Dear visitors welcome to this page of Ejobshub. In this page all the necessary details related to Government Jobs are stating for the job fighters who have immense desire to do and get any or specific organization government job. Now online job searching has become more popular and convenient to check the latest advertisements and notifications of recruitment and job
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:34 AM PDT
Latest Recruitment in India Once again we welcome our candidates on our webpage. This webpage is designed for the purpose of giving you the information of the latest recruitment notifications of the upcoming government and private jobs. Candidates should notice that there are many opportunities available in India. Candidates those who have completed their education this year should get ready
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:33 AM PDT
Sarkari Naukri Sarkari Naukri Notification will be circulated on this web page for all kinds of Government sectors Recruitment in India for those candidates who possess any qualification whether simple or extraordinary. As we know to get any public sector job has more security after recruitment of the desirable candidates for applied post but the fact is this that first of all you need to
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:32 AM PDT
Uttarakhand Rojgar Darshan Samachar Dear candidates do you belong to Uttarakhand state and searching a good job? Then you have reach at right place because on this web page because here we are announcing Uttarakhand Rojgar Darshan Samachar availability. This comes in the category of UK Employment News Paper. It provides about those jobs which are going to announce This Week. It is delivered in
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:31 AM PDT
Employment News This Week Welcome to all the candidates who are at present reading this article regarding Employment News This Week. Dear aspirants Employment News is a weekly jobs related news paper which mainly publishes in Hindi & English languages. In this paper form full of content having piece of paper provided details of results, upcoming educational / jobs exams, admit cards, new
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:30 AM PDT
www.rojgarsamachar.gov.in Dear visitors of this portal, here you are going to get details about those jobs which publish Online Rojgar Samachar in Hindi & English By State. Ejobshub.in is brought to the news of current vacancies for job seekers to provide them Latest Recruitment and Rojgar Samachar updates on monthly basis. In this page, we soon update this content to provide you all
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:32 AM PDT
Rojgar Express ejobshub.in presents one more article in the support of employment. Welcome to all the candidates who are still because the situation is going to change from jobless to job possessing. Rojgar express is a news paper which publish to provide all kinds of Central and State Government jobs for simple and technical both education. There are some different department where
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:32 AM PDT
Rojgar Samachar Welcome to all the job researchers! A good job is the first searching content of all the skilled and unskilled candidates at present time. To make this thing easy a news paper publishes as ‘Rojgar Samachar’. This paper document is also available Online in Hindi & English both the languages. Each and every aspirant can get a desired or suitable job as per qualification he/ she
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:32 AM PDT
Rozgar Career India Rozgar Career India is an employment news paper which is providing jobs notification from many years to the youth of the Indian. This Paper publishes in two languages that is in Hindi & English. Aspirants who are looking for jobs in any public sector / private sector they must have a close look on our page which is made for info of Rozgar career India.
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:11 AM PDT
Mazagon Dock Limited Recruitment Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) wants to recruit the sensible candidates on available 30 vacancies for the posts of Chief Manager, Manager, Assistant Manager, Senior Engineer and Executive Trainee. To declare this news for Awaited and eligible applicants an advertisement is broadcasted so that readers may apply online latest by final date. Experienced and
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:33 AM PDT
जानिए Whatsapp को कैसे बनाएं खास प्यारे दोस्तों whatsapp smartphone चलाने वालों के लिए बेहद गजब की instant मैसेजिंग एप है जिसका प्रयोग शायद ही कोई करता होगा जिसके पास smartphone है और दोस्तों,  करीबियों से जुड़े रहने के लिए हम whatsapp को चलाते है लेकिन फिर भी ऑफिसियल whatsapp एप्लीकेशन में बहुत सारी ऐसी कमियां जिनकी जरूरते पूरी नहीं हो पाती और हम दूसरी application का प्रयोग करने के बारे में
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:25 AM PDT
SSVS Sansthan Admit Card Shri Swami Vivekananda Shikshan Sansthan (SSVS) is going to fill 108085 openings for the posts of Field officer, Manager, Medical assistant, Multi-Tasking Staff and Office Staff, Teacher, Accountant, Assistant Manager, Computer Operator, Team leader and Technical helper. Soon applicants will be able to get SSVS Sansthan Admit Card in PDF with confirm exam sate. Awaited
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:19 AM PDT
SSVS Sansthan Syllabus Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sansthan is back again with a latest notice of information for those candidates who have applied for various offered posts. SSVS Sansthan Job is for those who are willing to become government school Teacher, MTS. Job finders who have applied for SSVS Sansthan positions and going to take part in exam they are advised to get their exam
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:19 PM PDT
Prime Minister's Scholarship Scheme Kendriya Sainik Board Secretariat has decided to implement Prime Minister's Scholarship Scheme that is why an advertisement is broadcasted for such aspirants who are willing to get admission into Professional Degree Courses such as BE, B.Tech, BDS, MBBS, B Ed, BBA, BCA, B.Pharma, etc. or already pursuing any of the courses. PMSS Scholarship is awarded to
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Posted: 17 Aug 2017 10:08 PM PDT
Indian Air Force Recruitment To provide a prideful career to young applicants Indian Air Force has released a new employment notice for fill up several vacancies for Group C- LDC and Painter posts at right location. Capable and physical fit job grabbers may cash this job chance by sending only offline filled application not later than last date. To join Air Force appliers need to know the
Posted: 17 Aug 2017 09:43 PM PDT
Karnataka State Police (KSP) Recruitment To increase the safety and stop crime in the state; Karnataka State Police has rolled out a fresh notification of careers for filling up of vacant 2076 vacancies for the posts of Constable and Sub-Inspector. As per post eligibility having appliers must apply online latest by final date to become close to the selection chance. Only properly filled
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:47 AM PDT
Holiday in India 2018 In this dynamic world no one wants to stay at one place because of walking nature. Because every service is available online to use and pay therefore today’s youth plans their upcoming year schedule in advance where to go and when to go. So, Month Wise Holiday In 2018 In India month wise from January to December are released in a new holiday list on the same place. In the
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:02 AM PDT
जानिए कैसे पाये बिजनेस में सफलता बिजनेस एक ऐसा शब्द है जिसमे सभी सफल होना चाहते है लेकिन कुछ ही लोग सफल होते है। अगर आप किसी भी ऑनलाइन या फिर ऑफलाइन बिजनेस में फैल होते है तो उसमे फैल होने के बहुत से कारण हो सकते है। हर एक व्यक्ति अपने बिजनेस में सफल होना चाहता है। अगर हम किसी भी बिजनेस को एक बिजनेस की तरह करे तो हमको उस बिजनेस में फ़ैल होने के चांस बहुत कम हो जाते है। आज हम आपको इस आर्टिकल
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 03:49 AM PDT
Tips for Students For Achieving Academic Success For all the students it is the first priority to get sure success in the educational studies but it is necessary to know the Tips for Students For Achieving Academic Success Guys. College youngsters wish for success in studying and really disturb for their career and future because actual starts from this point. If is necessary to know the pure
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:41 AM PDT
RML Hospital Recruitment Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia hospital Delhi is back again with an advertisement of jobs for filling the nil 109 vacancies for the posts of Junior Resident (JR) for different disciplines. Deserving and motivated candidates are advised to present in walk-in interview to recruit on available medial jobs. Experienced and excited aspirants will have to download the Application
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:35 AM PDT
Karnataka Police Constable Syllabus Dear candidates, want to join Police force of Karnataka for the post of Special Reserve Police Constable? If yes then start preparation because Karnataka Police Recruitment Board has announced Karnataka Police Syllabus here for all the job finders in advance so that they may do better preparation. Willing will have to qualify in Written Test, Physical
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:10 AM PDT
GTRE Recruitment Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has announced a notification of jobs for Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bangalore for filling up of 150 openings for the posts of Graduate Apprentice, ITI Apprentice and Diploma Apprentice. Dedicated and enough qualified candidates must send offline application with all related documents at proper place. As per notice
Posted: 18 Aug 2017 01:57 AM PDT
Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank Ltd Recruitment Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank Ltd is back again with a chance of jobs for filling up of latest vacancies for the posts of Jr. Executive (Trainee) and Sr. Executive. Highly educated and experienced job finders should submit online application form not later than final date. ys This is very rare chance of job so guys try hard to appoint. Willing and
Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:47 PM PDT
Best Courses After MBA Best Courses after MBA may be a thinking of such candidates who possess extraordinary talent to get better then this master degree. As we all know that MBA full form is Master of Business Administration which gives a person More Perspectives for Career Growth which may be either for Short Term or for whole life span. Candidates who are searching better then the best Job
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Russia Bans Jehovah's Witnesses' Translation Of Bible

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MOSCOW — 
A Russian court has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses' translation of the Bible following a drawn-out legal battle, another blow to followers of the pacifist Christian sect who have been branded extremists and driven to practicing their faith underground, as in Soviet times.
The Jehovah's Witnesses' parent organization in Russia and 395 regional branches were formally placed on the Justice Ministry's list of extremist groups Aug. 17, a procedural move following the Supreme Court's decision to ban the group's activities and seize its property earlier this year.
In a separate case that same day, a court in the northwestern border town of Vyborg banned the New World Translation of The Holy Scriptures, the group's version of the Bible. Several other publications by the Jehovah's Witnesses, including a brochure, The Bible — What Is Its Message? — were also labeled extremist.
The case against the religious group's Bible dates to July 2015, when a shipment of the books from Finland was stopped at the border and impounded by customs officials on suspicion of extremism.
Ban to be challenged
The ban on the Bible used by the Jehovah's Witnesses has not come into legal force, as the group intends to challenge the ruling in a regional court.
"Soon it will be illegal not only to gather [to worship], but also to read," said Yaroslav Sivulsky, a member of the European Association of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, adding that the court proceedings felt like theater.
"Whatever our lawyers said, it was as if the ruling was already known," he said.
The Jehovah's Witnesses international headquarters in New York decried the ruling.
"Just how far will Russia's resistance to religious freedom go? We certainly hope that respect for sacred texts will prevail when we pursue this case on appeal," said spokesman David Semonian in comments circulated by the group's press service.
The statement said the court ruling contradicts legislation signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2015 stipulating that sacred texts such as the Bible and Koran cannot be labeled extremist.
'Not a Bible'
The statement said the court relied on the findings of an expert panel that determined the book is not a Bible.
The Moscow-based Sova Center, which monitors the misuse of extremism legislation, criticized the "invalidity, helplessness, and glaring absurdity" of the panel's findings.
"It's just a typical translation," Aleksandr Verkhovsky, Sova's director, told RFE/RL. "It differs a little, of course, in language. There is always a variation between translations. It is not fundamentally different [from other versions of the Bible]."
He added: "It's written in more modern language, and there is a certain difference [in the translation] which reflects their religious beliefs. Some things are written, for instance, with a small letter, not with a big letter. Or where different names for God are used, [the Jehovah's Witnesses] write Jehovah everywhere. That's the level [of variation that] we're talking about."
Conservative Victory
The Jehovah's Witnesses, known universally for their door-to-door proselytizing, are viewed with suspicion in Russia for their rejection of military service and voting. Their refusal to take blood transfusions has seen them accused of being a threat to themselves, their children, and public safety.
The Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted in the Soviet Union, most severely under Josef Stalin. After the Soviet collapse, tight restrictions on religious groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses were suddenly relaxed, leading to a surge in popularity for the Orthodox Church and other religious and faith groups.
Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses are estimated to number 175,000 today.
The group was driven underground this year after the Supreme Court labeled them extremists, Sivulsky said. "When the ruling came into full force after July 17, then of course everyone without exception stopped gathering in big groups because it is a criminal offense. No one is consciously trying to be accused of criminal activity," he said.
The Supreme Court ruling stipulates that all property belonging to the Jehovah's Witnesses' organization should be seized by the state, although Sivulsky said this provision had not yet been implemented. "We haven't seen any action on this. [But] it's a question of time."
The banning of the group fits into a broader conservativism advocated by Moscow in a rejection of liberal Western values. It has also been seen as a victory for conservative factions of the Russian Orthodox Church, which view the Jehovah's Witnesses' rejection of elements of mainstream Christian doctrine as a threat.
However, Vsevolod Chaplin, the ultraconservative former church spokesman, disapproved of the banning of the group in comments to the NTV channel on August 17.
"Perhaps it would be better to keep them in the field of play to keep an eye on how they are developing so as to perhaps restrict it in its extreme activities," he said.
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This is Sinclair, 'the most dangerous US company

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Most Americans don’t know it exists. Primetime US news refers to it as an “under-the-radar company”. Unlike Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, virtually no one outside of business circles could name its CEO. And yet, Sinclair Media Group is the owner of the largest number of TV stations in America.
“Sinclair’s probably the most dangerous company most people have never heard of,” said Michael Copps, the George W Bush-appointed former chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the top US broadcast regulator.
John Oliver – host of HBO’s weekly satirical show Last Week Tonight – used a similar line when he introduced an 18-minute segment on Sinclair last month by referring to it as “maybe the most influential media company you never heard of”.
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But that is beginning to change. Sinclair’s size, rightwing politics and close connections to Donald Trump’s White House are starting to attract attention. Democrats are wading in to the fray and demanding answers over Sinclair’s close ties to the Trump administration, which, they say, could mean the group is getting preferential treatment.
The New York Times refers to the group as a “conservative giant” that, since the Bush presidency, has used its 173 television stations “to advance a mostly right-leaning agenda”. The Washington Post describes it as a “company with a long history of favoring conservative causes and candidates on its stations’ newscasts”.
More recently, Sinclair has added a website, Circa, to its portfolio. But not any old website. Circa has been described as “the new Breitbart” and a favorite among White House aides who wish to platform news to a friendly source (a process otherwise known as “leaking”). As the US news site the Root put it: “What if Breitbart and Fox News had a couple of babies? What if they grew up to be a cool, slicker version of their parents and started becoming more powerful? Meet Sinclair and Circa –Donald Trump’s new besties.”
The growing anxiety in America over the rise of Sinclair stems from the belief the company’s close connections to Trump have allowed it to skirt market regulations. Already the biggest broadcaster in the country, Sinclair is poised to make its biggest move yet. If the FCC approves Sinclair’s $3.9bn purchase of an additional 42 stations, it would reach into the homes of almost three-quarters of Americans.
Another cause for concern, and increased scrutiny, is what’s seen as the company’s pronounced political agenda. Sinclair forces its local stations to run pro-Trump “news” segments. In April, they hired Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump campaign spokesman and member of the White House press office, as its chief political analyst. His “must-run” 10-minute political commentary segments unsurprisingly hewed closely to the Trump administration’s message. The news and analysis website Slate, referring to Epshteyn’s contributions, said: “As far as propaganda goes, this is pure, industrial-strength stuff.”
Some local stations have reportedly chafed at the idea of pro-Trump “must run” packages. Sinclair’s management says the packages are necessary to provide viewers with diverse viewpoints as a counterweight to progressive leanings they’re convinced are held by the media, including the staff of their own local stations. “Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the media is left of center,” David Smith, then Sinclair’s CEO, told Rolling Stone in 2005.
But Sinclair’s politics isn’t restricted to Epshteyn’s contributions. It has a long history of airing material which has often been controversial, and for which it has been sanctioned in the past – all the while purporting to simply report the “news”.
While it doesn’t have the cultural cachet of major conservative networks like Fox News, Sinclair’s influence is more subtle. Unlike Fox News, which brands itself clearly and proudly, most viewers of Sinclair’s local stations have no idea who owns them since they are not branded as part of the Sinclair network.
But it is their intended purchase of a collection of new stations owned by Tribune Media – the former owners of the illustrious Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times – that has thrust them into the national spotlight unlike ever before.
“It used to be a few years ago there were some mergers that were unthinkable,” Copps, now with the DC-based watchdog group Common Cause, told the Guardian. “We’re in a period now when everything’s so wild that nothing is unthinkable.”

For the Trump administration, Sinclair has obvious appeal

The figure that looms large behind Sinclair is David Smith, whose father founded the company in the Nixon era. Smith recently ended his 28-year reign as CEO, and along with his brothers maintains what an industry publication called “iron-clad control” of the billion-dollar media empire as well as the company’s majority financial interest.
The Smith family, based in and around Baltimore, likes to keep a low profile – they give few interviews and David Smith has no Wikipedia page. “We would tend to maintain as much anonymity as we can,” he told the Baltimore Sun in 1995, one of the rare times he’s spoken to the press.
Their political agenda is somewhat less mysterious. Campaign finance records show the Smith brothers have historically donated overwhelmingly to Republicans. And a Washington Post analysis of the company’s 2016 presidential election coverage found Sinclair stations were unusually favorable towards Trump and negative towards Hillary Clinton.
During last year’s presidential campaign, Sinclair conducted zero interviews with Clinton. But it touted 15 “exclusive” ones with Trump, which aired mostly in critical swing states in the final months of the election and without any commentary, despite the copious fact-checking Trump interviews tend to require. Sinclair has insisted it had no special arrangement with the Trump campaign and that Clinton simply did not make herself available to them. Clinton campaign officials say they spurned Sinclair for a reason, though her vice-presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, gave a handful interviews to Sinclair stations.
According to Politico, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner told a room full of Manhattan business executives that the campaign had struck a deal with Sinclair to secure better coverage in the states where they needed spots most.
Former FCC Commissioner Pai and Chairman Wheeler testify at House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FCC’s 2016 budget.
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 The FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, testifies in the House of Representatives. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
The manner in which Sinclair looks set to expand – specifically, with Trump paving the way – is causing widespread anxiety throughout media and political circles. The focus of the concern is Ajit Pai, the man Trump appointed as head of the country’s top broadcasting regulator, the FCC.
Since he began work in January, Pai has been busy relaxing the protections for local broadcasting that had previously limited Sinclair’s expansion.
Trump’s new-look FCC has moved swiftly to clear the hurdles for Sinclair’s proposed takeover of Tribune. A day before Trump was inaugurated, Smith invited Pai to a meeting at the Washington-area headquarters of the company’s ABC affiliate. Within 10 days of taking over the FCC, a New York Times investigation found, Pai had already relaxed a restriction on TV stations’ sharing of resources, including ad revenue – precisely the topic Smith had met with Pai about.
Since January, the Times report found, “Pai has undertaken a deregulatory blitz enacting or proposing a wishlist of fundamental policy changes advocated by Mr Smith and his company.”
Tom Wheeler, Pai’s predecessor at the FCC, who is now at the Brookings Institution, said: “What’s surprising is how fast the Trump FCC moved and how they moved without any real opportunity for public comment and without any following of procedural due process ... So you look at that kind of behavior and scratch your head.”
To better understand such behavior and where it’s leading, it helps to consider where Sinclair began.
David Smith’s father, Julian Sinclair Smith, described by the company’s official history as “patriarch to the Smith brothers”, founded the company in 1971, and kept a hand in the business until his death, following a battle with Parkinson’s, in 1993. But the company’s greatest evolutionary changes began around 1990, when the brothers bought up the remainder of their parents’ stock, kicking off an extended buying spree that would last decades.
As Sinclair grew, so did the scrutiny. And increasingly, the Smith brothers found themselves not just the broadcasters, but the subject of the news.
In 1996, David Smith was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute who performed what the police called “unnatural and perverted sex on him” in a Mercedes owned by Sinclair. More disturbing to critics than the misdemeanor sex offense, though, was the unusual way he got out of doing the court-ordered community service that resulted from his plea bargain in the case: by having his broadcasting company do what amounted to publicity hits for local drug counseling programs, packaged as news.
LuAnne Canipe, a former reporter for Sinclair, said the incident was also indicative of a broader culture of office sexism. “Let’s just say the arrest of the CEO was part of a sexual atmosphere that trickled down to different levels in the company,” said Canipe, who left Sinclair in 1998. “There was an improper work environment. I think that because of what he did, there was a feeling that everything was fair game.”

One person concerned by Sinclair’s growth: Rupert Murdoch

The growth of Sinclair may have passed below the radar, but not past another media mogul – Rupert Murdoch, chairman and acting CEO of Fox News.
Although Sinclair has insisted it has no interest in competing with national cable news platforms like Murdoch’s, industry observers say the mogul is already planning a strategy to combat the rise of a potential rival. After a failed attempt to outbid Sinclair for Tribune, Murdoch is threatening a switch of Fox’s broadcast affiliates from Sinclair-owned stations to those of a smaller independent broadcaster.
Donald Trump with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in July 2016.
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 Donald Trump with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in July 2016. Photograph: Carlo Allegri / Reuters/Reuters
But it isn’t just Sinclair’s business interests that are a cause of creeping concern – its political affiliations could be, too.
Take the case the former congressman Bob Ehrlich, a Maryland Republican who later become governor. After pressing the FCC to fast-track Sinclair’s request to acquire more stations, Ehrlich enjoyed company perks like the frequent use of a Sinclair executive’s luxury helicopter, as the Baltimore Sun reported in 2002. By the time full details of the report emerged, Ehrlich had already won his gubernatorial election.
In 2004, Sinclair leadership reportedly ordered its local affiliate stations to air a documentary critical of the Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, based on allegations which later proved unfounded – that Kerry had exaggerated his record as a swift-boat officer in the Vietnam war.
A Washington DC bureau chief publicly resisted and was fired for the offense. The incident sent ripples through its stations, but Sinclair said media reports about the controversy exaggerated the issue.
Around the same time, as George W Bush faced criticism over the faltering war in Iraq, Sinclair ordered seven of its stations not to run an episode of Nightline in which host Ted Koppel read the names of every American soldier killed in the war, saying it “undermine[d] the efforts of the United States in Iraq”. The decision sparked a major backlash, including from the Republican senator John McCain, a Vietnam war veteran, who wrote a letter to David Smith calling the decision “unpatriotic” and “a gross disservice to the public, and to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces”.
Other times, Sinclair’s influence has been more ambiguous. When the Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs was assaulted by the then US congressional candidate Greg Gianforte on the eve of his election in Montana, the local NBC affiliate, recently purchased by Sinclair, refused to air Jacobs’s audio recording of the incident, despite entreaties from NBC executives in New York. The local news director said she was not influenced by Sinclair, noting the purchase was not yet complete. Gianforte won the election, and, the day after the Montana Republican was charged with assault, Sinclair’s vice-president and director Fred Smith donated $1,000 to him.
Meanwhile, with its 2015 purchase of Circa, a mobile aggregated news app, Sinclair has control for the first time of a national text-based news outlet. Backed by a staff of 70, Sinclair transformed the app into conservative-leaning platform offering thinly sourced scoops – often written without any author byline other than “Circa staff” – that frequently seem to advance the Trump administration’s agenda du jour. Trump and his aides have returned the favor by linking to Circa’s content, and it’s become a favorite source of Sean Hannity, Fox News’s most obsequious Trump booster. (Sinclair denies Circa has any political orientation, noting that it does not carry op-eds.)
The rise of Sinclair has also recently stirred the Democrats in Washington, who have become increasingly vocal on the issue.
This summer, Senator Maria Cantwell led a group of colleagues in urging commerce and judiciary leaders to carefully examine the pending deal with Tribune, citing concern “about the level of media concentration this merger creates, and its impact on the public interest”, according to the lawmakers’ June letter.
And this week, House Democrats in top FCC oversight positions wrote directly to the FCC’s Pai expressing their dismay at what they perceive to be a “pattern” of preferential treatment toward Sinclair.
In addition to changes paving the way for Sinclair’s merger, Pai’s FCC has proposed eliminating one of its most fundamental rules, which requires local news stations to actually have a local studio where they broadcast the news.
Now, the agency seems poised to do away with local broadcast protections, which would allow Sinclair and other broadcasters to save money by cutting local staff and to impose more editorial input from corporate headquarters.
And that means many more Americans will be hearing from the most dangerous company most people have never heard of – whether they know it or not.
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