Fox Television Stations CEO Jack Abernethy took time out from overseeing his dancing Anchors at the Fox O&O’s to stop by the most expensive hotel in Florida to give a speech.

Well, it was more like a message to Trump’s FCC. Abernethy is claiming that broadcast ownership restrictions are one of the biggest obstacles facing local journalism.

Now, before we go further into the B.S. that the Fox boss is shoveling, let’s point out the fact that WRAL in Raleigh is one of the best, if not the best stations doing journalism in the country right now. WRAL is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company. CBC owns just three stations, WRAL and two other stations that you never heard of.

So that alone pokes a big hole in Abernethy’s logic. Talking to the Florida Association of Broadcasters at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Abernethy said, “The danger isn’t that news organizations are too big. The danger is that they’re not big enough and financially strong to be independent.”

I don’t buy that one bit. Does anyone really think that if Nexstar, Tegna or Gray get bigger with more stations, journalism will be better off? Of course not. In fact, it is a good bet that these companies will buy up stations in markets where they already own stations and then merge the stations together. That means, Journalists will lose their jobs and viewers will be offered fewer choices for news.

Abernethy then said, "In a nutshell we are meeting customers where they are, be it on linear, social or streaming, and doing it with an obsessive focus on innovation, costs and efficiency.”

Really, is he counting Anchors dancing on TikTok, or putting on makeup minutes before the newscasts?

This isn’t about Journalism, it’s about greed and sadly, the FCC is going to let them gobble up all the stations they want.