In this Majority Report clip, Sam Seder tells you why Ajit Pai is worried.

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"Apparently, even sell-out corporate shills have their breaking point. Ajit Pai’s FCC released documents on Thursday that explain why it’s sending Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed takeover of local news in the U.S. to a judge for further review. Defying all expectations, the deal now looks like it’s next to dead.

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously decided that the $3.9 billion merger between Sinclair and Tribune Media contained enough cause for concern that it should be reviewed independently by an administrative judge. This afternoon, it made the related hearing designation order public and explained for the first time why it believes this deal may “not be in the public interest.”

Before today, there was plenty of reason to believe it was a bad idea to let Sinclair skirt regulation with a loophole and have stations available in 72 percent of American households. One reason is, that’s almost twice the reach federal rules allow one company to control (the standard federally mandated limit is 39 percent); another reason is, Sinclair is a brazen conservative propaganda outlet that forces good reporters to debase themselves; on top of that, Pai, the FCC’s chairman, managed to land himself under investigation for allegedly improper coordination with the broadcasting company after he revived the very loophole that would have put Sinclair in two-thirds of Americans’ living rooms."

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