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Tina Nguyen
Newsmax is trying to stop Trump’s FCC from screwing them.

The MAGA-friendly television network officially filed a complaint to the FCC asking them to halt the proposed merger between television broadcast companies Nexstar and Tegna, with Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy calling it a “dangerous consolidation” that would hand them “immense control over local news and political news coverage.” Unfortunately for them, Nexstar can curry favor with the Trump administration in ways that Newsmax cannot.

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