However history comes to judge President Trump’s unique brand of diplomacy it is clear already he is having a major impact on US media. He is well known to favor outlets sympathetic to him such as Fox News but his greatest supporter which enjoys a lower profile is Sinclair Broadcasting. At least that was the case until the issue of its slavish support for the Trump doctrine came to the boil in April 2018 when some of its journalists revolted by leaking details of instructions they had been given. This came when Sinclair’s controversial $3.9 billion bid for Tribune Broadcasting which would give it access to an additional 43 TV stations, on top of the 193 it already had, was…