https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/30/trump_fcc_sinclair/

Controversy over a proposed $4bn merger of Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media in the US has blown up again – after a commissioner on America's media watchdog, the FCC, blasted President Trump's public backing of the deal.

"This is not normal," FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel told CNN on Sunday in response to Trump's tweet that it was "sad and unfair" that the federal regulator didn't give the mega-merger a green light and instead chose to have it reviewed by an administrative court.