“Access to diverse and credible local news sources is essential to a robust democracy. We can’t allow media monopolies to keep expanding at the expense of customers who want unbiased local broadcasting, not messaging that conforms to a corporate, political or religious agenda. INSP is the successor corporation to the scandal-plagued PTL which was founded by televangelist grifters Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. It is rightwing religious media on steroids — hardly a fit for the local media market, and not a trustworthy purveyor of local news. “I’ve been advocating against this kind of consolidation for years. We need the FCC to push back on this unfortunate trend and I am calling on them to reject this sale.”
—U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-CA, “Jared Huffman calls on FCC to reject sale of Eureka TV stations,” The Eureka Times-Standard, March 31, 2022.
• Editorial Comment: “News” from the TV pulpit, coming to a station near you.
• Whatever happened to Jim & Tammy Faye? “The scandals that brought down the Bakkers, once among the US's most famous televangelists,” 20/20, ABC News, 2019.
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