Seems like we need to get more people cord-cut immediately...
Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, just about as scary as GE, Disney, Time Warner et al. pushing their left wing agendas via CNN, MSNBC/NBC and ABC. See, everyone can play this game in the Postmodernist world.
OK but now you have to explain why pushing a "left wing agenda" is supposed to be scary. Was it voting rights? Is voting rights scary? Or perhaps universal health care? Is that scary? Or a public education? Wooow that's REALLY scary! Come on.. scare us! We liberals love a good scary story!
It's easy if you just blindly accept the axioms of one of the groups. You accept the axioms of left wingers, so it doesn't seem scary to you. I'm not a right winger but they could just as easily say: murdering millions of unborn children, robbing us of our right to defend ourselves, denying the right to freedom of association, infringing on our freedom of speech, infringing on our freedom of religion, etc. Those are all pretty scary.
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#33Why is this news? Conan covered this years ago. https://mic.com/articles/77721/watch-conan-o-brien-bust-loca...
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#34They most likely had their speeches written by the same person/people/company. It goes like that in most countries: a big media outlet sells pre-made news/opinions to most newspapers which they then only adapt slightly and keep most of the taglines and significant phrasing.
It was the same exact speech. The only variance was "we at [TV station name]."
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#35Why is the part about Sinclair news reporting on "Islamic terror" and "Trump support" singled out. Do they not report on anything else at all? Or is reporting on both this stuff by default a wrong thing to do?
Sinclair does not report on anything. Local TV stations do their own journalism, but Sinclair owns the station and can order the local broadcasters to read scripts.
Those topics are likely the only ones with concrete evidence.
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#36This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
I agree. 232 people control the news that 277 million americans are allowed to see. ([1] from 2012). Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself. I think it is this control at a national level that the Sinclair news anchors were being told to warn people about, but the NYT has flipped the narrative on them, and now they're the bad guys. Genius, but unfortunate. [1] http://www.busi…
Your take doesn't jibe with Sinclair requiring their stations to air Boris Epshteyn and his, uh, "analysis".
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#37FYI, the article seems to be linking to a reupload of the original video for some reason. This is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
Nah, they've just linked to another upload -- if you want to know the account, the link under "social media" points to the same video as the embed one.
Besides, the original is Deadspin's article[1]. The video was downloaded and posted on Youtube. The Reddit user said that oneself. Deadspin, of course, also got the idea and news elsewhere, e.g., the linked ThinkProgress video in the article.
[1] https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local...
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#38Isn't this pretty much the case for all corporate media? The narrative is set from the top down, and if anyone strays too far outside the Overton Window, they're punished. Example: Phil Donahue getting fired from MSNBC for speaking against the war in Iraq. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
This message was tailored to push the "fake news" narrative of the current administration under the guise of journalistic integrity. It is designed to engender absolute distrust in non-Sinclair media, which given Sinclair's enormous market share[0] is unwarranted and harmful to the democracy.
Why would this be classified by Sinclair a MUST run segment for likely one reason? Easy: to curry favor with the White House to clear the path for further consolidation. Trump speaks glowingly of Sinclair,[1] despite what others consider to be anti-competitive acquisitions and mergers and detrimental to a healthy free press.[2] Yet, Trump has taken action to prevent CNN from merging with Time Warner which is currently being tried in a courtroom.[3] The difference is that CNN's news reporting is very unfavorable to this White House.
This is not how a democracy remains healthy, or, really, how one continues to exist.
[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/05/07/sin... [1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/02/trump-defends-sinc... [2] https://www.vox.com/2017/5/15/15598270/sinclair-broadcast-im... [3] http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/media/trump-comments-att-tim...
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#39Why is this news? Conan covered this years ago. https://mic.com/articles/77721/watch-conan-o-brien-bust-loca...
Because Sinclair just purchased more TV stations, so many in fact that it was banned under previous administrations at the FCC. At the start of 2017, the FCC just rewrote the rules allowing Sinclair to own a large swath of the US's local news capacity.
In many markets they're the sole source of local news.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-07/sinclair-...
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, just about as scary as GE, Disney, Time Warner et al. pushing their left wing agendas via CNN, MSNBC/NBC and ABC. See, everyone can play this game in the Postmodernist world.
OK but now you have to explain why pushing a "left wing agenda" is supposed to be scary. Was it voting rights? Is voting rights scary? Or perhaps universal health care? Is that scary? Or a public education? Wooow that's REALLY scary! Come on.. scare us! We liberals love a good scary story!
Non-US citizen here. I just love how "left wing" is now defined in America.
Disney is now left wing. Yep.