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Marc Fisher is a senior editor at the Washington Post and the co-author of Trump Revealed.
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Media competition for Fox News Despite the growth of cable and the dominance of three broadcast networks, many Americans still get their news from local TV. Now, one company — the Sinclair Broadcast Group — will soon own enough stations, many are in small and medium markets, to give it access to more than 70 percent of American households. We hear about Sinclair's requirement that all local newscasts carry the same conservative segments — produced by the company. There's also One America News , building a cable audience with undisguised favoritism to Donald Trump. Will "fairness and balance" be a thing of the past?
To the Point
Media competition for Fox News Despite the growth of cable and the dominance of three broadcast networks, many Americans still get their news from local TV. Now, one company — the Sinclair Broadcast Group — will soon own enough stations, many are in small and medium markets, to give it access to more than 70 percent of American households. We hear about Sinclair's requirement that all local newscasts carry the same conservative segments — produced by the company. There's also One America News , building a cable audience with undisguised favoritism to Donald Trump. Will "fairness and balance" be a thing of the past?
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The White House Opens a New Front on the Heroin Overdose Epidemic A steep increase in deaths from overdoses of heroin has increased pressure to find alternatives to the so-called War on Drugs. Today, the Obama Administration has announced an innovative initiative. Marc Fisher is part of a team at the Washington Post spending a year studying the heroin epidemic.
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Legal Pot in the Nation's Capital Last November, 70% of Washington, DC voters approved recreational marijuana in the nation's capital city. Despite last-minute threats from some members of Congress, the Mayor and the City Council held firm and, yesterday, the will of the voters went into effect. So, although marijuana is still prohibited under federal law, you can now smoke pot in Washington, DC. Marc Fisher, senior editor at the Washington Post , has more on this victory for home rule in the nation's capital.
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.