Newspapers do this a lot with Associated Press stories -- they're filler for what you don't have the capacity to create yourself. I don't really see a problem with it.
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Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#22This is Sinclair Broadcasting Group which operates "a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households), many of which are located in the South and Midwest". It has had "must run" segments that all stations are required to run coming down from management that are generally right-wing talking points. In a John Oliver segment about Sinclair he stated that he "did not know it was possible to dip below the journalistic standards of Breitbart". Sinclair also struck deals with the Trump family and campaign to promote them during the 2016 campaign.
Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#23Newspapers do this a lot with Associated Press stories -- they're filler for what you don't have the capacity to create yourself. I don't really see a problem with it.
They might repost news from the AP, but not opinion pieces.
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#24I've consciously not watched news for at least the last 20 years. I never watched it much before that. My life is better because of it. It's nothing but fear mongering.
Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#25I worked with someone who worked in a local news studio. They told me that A LOT of the stories came pre-scripted. Imagine you are a local news studio. You went from being responsible for 30 minutes of content a day to (often) upwards of two hours. And you only have a skeleton crew of on staff writers. To stretch the time, corporate offers a library of "stock" news stories and scripts to choose from. I am told that l…
That's absolutely true. I understand that this particular piece is a step beyond that: a 'must run' segment that was mandated by corporate (something for which Sinclair has form).
Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#26As the video description says "Found the clip, sharing it here." We probably shouldn't link to someone who just stole this clip. On the other hand, the original clip was posted on Deadspin, which was mismanaged so badly that the entire staff ended up resigning roughly a year after they first posted this clip so I don't want to link to them either. So instead I will point to the author of the original article that contained this video, Timothy Burke [1][2]. He has an insane setup for capturing television broadcasts and does a lot of great work like this to highlight the most interesting and troubling aspects of news and sports television.
Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#27I worked with someone who worked in a local news studio. They told me that A LOT of the stories came pre-scripted. Imagine you are a local news studio. You went from being responsible for 30 minutes of content a day to (often) upwards of two hours. And you only have a skeleton crew of on staff writers. To stretch the time, corporate offers a library of "stock" news stories and scripts to choose from. I am told that l…
That phenomenon has nothing to do with the linked video, though. They are totally different. One is news, from news agencies, the other is corporate right-wing propaganda from the owner of the station.
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#28I’ve always felt the media is generally reading from the same script. The News, locally or national, is more of a theatrical production than actual information.
Tangent, but to my American ear, the British English sense of "presenter" -- someone who reads the news -- seems to acknowledge the theatrical aspect of the role. More so than our "anchorperson" which seems to come from a game show.
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#29is this related to the sinclair broadcast group[1,2] or something else? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_... 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
This is Sinclair, and I find it extremely funny that the right has taken this video to smear the rest of the MSM.
Woah, it's almost as if the right isn't monolithic
Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
#30As the video description says "Found the clip, sharing it here." We probably shouldn't link to someone who just stole this clip. On the other hand, the original clip was posted on Deadspin, which was mismanaged so badly that the entire staff ended up resigning roughly a year after they first posted this clip so I don't want to link to them either. So instead I will point to the author of the original article that con…
A stealth tech company in Calif-US created a system to record as many news casts as possible, 24-7, and invoke the closed-caption system to annotate it, and make it searchable. The company was sold in the early 2000's for $1B+ ; I have never seen the name in any tech news.
source: colleague was a core engineer there