The new Trump-appointed FCC is hell-bent on deregulating all kinds of industries including the internet, which many know about, but few are aware of their next target which is the local news. Thanks to looser restrictions, the pro-Trump conservative media company, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, will purchase so many local news stations that they will have access to the 72% of American households. What will be the implications for the information landscape in the coming years? Correspondent Naomi Karavani discusses the impacts of this merger on local news.

Lee Camp
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Lee Camp is the host and head writer of the popular comedy news TV show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America. The show also features correspondents John F. O’Donnell, Carlos Delgado, Naomi Karavani, and Phillip Chang. Salon.com said, "The finest TV satire thus far this election season has come from the Nightly Show and Lee Camp on Redacted Tonight." The show has also won a 2016 Telly Award for their live stand-up comedy special in New York City. George Carlin's daughter Kelly said Camp was one of only a handful keeping her father's torch lit. Camp is a former writer for The Onion and for Huffington Post Comedy. He created and starred in the viral YouTube show Moment of Clarity that was seen by millions, and he's performed stand-up comedy in a dozen countries and every state in the US. He has also been featured on Comedy Central, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, MTV, FOX & Showtime. Many know him from the viral clip of him on Fox News calling a “parade of propaganda and a festival of ignorance.”

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