Holy moly this is crazy. Sherman is at New York Magazine, and told Joy Reid that his sources at Fox News say O’Reilly and Hannity are thinking about teaming up at a NEW right-wing pro-Trump network!!!!
As I reported this morning on @amjoyshow, Bill O'Reilly has talked Hannity about teaming up to go to Sinclair Broadcasting, sources say.
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) July 23, 2017
Wow. Bill O’Reilly was Fox News’ yugest ad revenue generator – this would be crazy.
However…
I'm skeptical though of an O'Reilly-Hannity alliance because the two had a lot of bad blood from their time at Fox News
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) July 23, 2017
Impt to note O'Reilly also considering @newsmax TV as a possibly landing pad
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) July 23, 2017
Here’s Sherman talking about it on MSNBC:
.@GABRIELSHERMAN‘s sources tell him Bill O’Reilly could be coming back to TV via Sinclair media. Thoughts? #AMJoy https://t.co/RTQOE82QR1
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) July 23, 2017
Sherman has shown with his prior scoops that he has legitimate sources at Fox News.
Here’s what Sinclair is doing to prep the coming of the Trump Age:
Sinclair Broadcast Group made headlines in May when it bought Tribune Media for $3.9 billion — a move that would give the company ownership of enough local television stations to reach 70 percent of American households.
Sinclair is owned by a big-money GOP donor, and it shows: The broadcaster coerced its local affiliates into skewing their coverage in favor of Trump during the 2016 campaign, hired former Trump spokesman Boris Ephsteyn as their chief political analyst after the mogul’s victory, and requires all its stations to air commentary from Ephsteyn and conservative pundit Mark Hyman, as well as updates from the Terrorism Alert Desk (sensationalized coverage of recent terror attacks) every week.
And now, Sinclair is forcing its (growing) list of affiliates to triple their weekly Ephsteyn content.
Well, that’s just… insane. If there is any kind of new pro-Trump news network, I can guarantee that it’ll get huge ratings, while radicalizing Trump’s base, pushing a majority of Americans and Republicans away, and making him much less effective at actually fulfilling his agenda…