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Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script

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Post by creaghpatr »

digitaltrees wrote: post #127
meri_dian wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CNN doesn't stand up and say "we're devoting our reporting resources to all things anti Trump, this is our bias, it's not secret". They simply report the news they choose to report. Just like Sinclair. People watch the news hoping to get an accurate depiction of reality. When only one side of a multifaceted situation is reported on, the depiction becomes distorted. It's never OK to do this, regardless of whose side y…

This is a more insidious problem than any one media property because the very structure of the local news organization -being small and distributed - gives them a unique credibility for most viewers because they assume that their local news team is more closely align with their local beliefs, values, and interests. People do not assume every word from a local news anchor is the exact script for the entire country. Fu…

>I have never seen that message on CNN

Give me a break. You don't remember "This an Apple", one of the most elitist, pretentious advertising campaigns in recent times:

""This is an apple. Some people might try to tell you that it's a banana. They might scream, 'Banana, banana, banana,' over and over and over again. They might put banana in all caps. You might even start to believe it's a banana, but it's not. This is an apple."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckz6EAn30Y

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Post by dahdum »

throwawaylalala wrote: post #165
dahdum wrote: post #139

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Democrats should be willing to compromise because they value the DACA fix more than their opposition to border funding. They are instead doing the same thing Republicans did to Obama, refusing to compromise in order to whip up their base. Any politician that compromises an inch these days will be portrayed as an immoral enemy and attacked by some vocal part of their own base.

"They are instead doing the same thing Republicans did to Obama, refusing to compromise in order to whip up their base." Democrats are in the minority though, not the majority like the Republicans had during Obama's tenure. If they want something done then they can do it.

Republicans started out in the minority during Obama’s term, but Democrats bled seats like crazy, especially after ACA. They are using the same playbook now, using tax reform as the rallying cry like ACA was.

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Post by digitaltrees »

dahdum wrote: post #161
ModernMech wrote: post #115

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No one is seriously proposing open boarders. Anyone on the right telling you otherwise is selling you a straw man. And let's all remember, a border without a wall is not an "open" border. That's not what that means.

I consider them open now, in practice not law. Despite also supporting amnesty, chain migration, and increased visa quotas I’ve been told I’m racist for wanting a secure border. Racist for not supporting border policies that create an underclass of undocumented, helpless workers.

Open boarders worked well in the early united states. I don't want to go back to closed boarders between New York and New Jersey.

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Post by state_less »

ModernMech wrote: post #179
state_less wrote: post #155

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> All news is based. The truth isn't biased, so if the news reports the truth, "x said y" and we have evidence that x said y, then it is not biased and therefore all new is NOT biased.

You still think the truth is objective after a year+ living in this alternative fact world? There is no such thing as a "truth" anymore. Even cold hard figures are negotiable. Remember "The employment rate was fake news before but it's very real now"

Don't let lies get to you. Never give up, never surrender.

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Post by [deleted] »

ams6110 wrote: post #159
wanderer2323 wrote: post #141

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That's not derailing, you are trying to split hairs to stifle discussion. Global media is pretty clearly biased against the current administration. It seems that Sinclair is the asymmetrical response. Discussing them in the larger context of the US news is completely valid.

It's hilarious. Just like Facebook privacy issues only blew up when it might have benefited Trump, but it was fine when Obama used that data (on a much larger scale), it's funny that NYT is suddenly paying attention to this coordinated reporting campaign when they and the national TV media parrot Media Matters all day, every day. It's easy to find a dozen examples of national TV talking heads all using the same phras…

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Post by mejari »

creaghpatr wrote: post #111
bradleyankrom wrote: post #97

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I don't think very many left-of-center people would agree with your assertion that it was a "huge" compromise. They wanted tens of billions of dollars for a symbolic wall, closing of several legal immigration processes, etc. There are several DACA fixes sitting in congress but Republican leadership refuses to bring any of them up for a vote.

>They wanted tens of billions of dollars for a symbolic wall In fact the wall would have been physical, rather than 'symbolic'

Physical things can be symbolic...

A wall symbolizing keeping out foreigners without actually doing anything useful to do so is pretty much the definition of symbolic.

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Post by dragonwriter »

digitaltrees wrote: post #183
dahdum wrote: post #161

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I consider them open now, in practice not law. Despite also supporting amnesty, chain migration, and increased visa quotas I’ve been told I’m racist for wanting a secure border. Racist for not supporting border policies that create an underclass of undocumented, helpless workers.

Open boarders worked well in the early united states. I don't want to go back to closed boarders between New York and New Jersey.

> Open boarders

Is that a new term for nautical piracy now that “piracy” has been stolen for copyright infringement?

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Post by mejari »

robotrout wrote: post #158
digitaltrees wrote: post #152

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Didn't Democrats offer to fund the boarder wall in exchange for a DACA bill? What more compromise is there?

No, they did not. Trump's offer was made for the nation to hear, during the State of the Union. You should watch it again.

You should not blindly believe whatever Trump says

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-trump-isnt-taking-d...

Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script

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Post by digitaltrees »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #3

I'm not clear why this is a problem. A corporation asked its broadcasters to make a statement on fake news. This statement sounds similar to others made by other corporate owned networks. Viewers are invited to comment on the website.

Systematically destroying the trust in all other sources of truth so that you are the only source of truth is a dangerous tactic that is used to consolidate power in the minds of a population. This argument needs to be called out any time its used and by anyone that uses it. I am on the left, if any democrat used this argument to gain power I would call them out.
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