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Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

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Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

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Post by dylan604 »

coliveira wrote: post #16
dylan604 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a difference from everyone quoting from an AP or Reuters new service. It's an entirely different thing when one media company forces it's stations to literally read from the exact same script, or worse, force a must-run segment produced externally from the local station.

But it's not that much different. The main difference is who is doing the scripting. The reality is that local TV never did anything by themselves, they're repeating messages that have been fed by someone else.

>But it's not that much different. The main difference is who is doing the scripting.

That's just being totaly unrealistic. The news agencies like AP report news where forced must-run scripts from agenda pushing corporate owners cannot even be considered the same ballpark as "not much different"

>The reality is that local TV never did anything by themselves

If you are referring to local news reporting on anything outside the local area, then of course they don't do much themselves. If they had first party reporters outside of their local area, they'd no longer be a local news. This is why local news have partners in other markets, or other agencies like AP.

Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

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Post by nitrogen »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #9
swiley wrote: post #3

Televised news is harmful manipulative crap. Just like most Google products you should avoid exposing yourself to it. Of course I feel a little bad telling people this because it's pretty easy to avoid. Once TV news becomes unpopular they'll probably start shoving the same stuff into something that was previously mostly free of that kind of thing.

The new strategy is to saturate social media with the same talking points ad-nauseam. It’s especially apparent on Reddit and Twitter.

You can even do this with things that are true, to discredit them. Then, when someone independently comes to the same true conclusion, their friends can robotically shut them down with "you are just repeating side X's talking points!"

Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

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Post by lstamour »

mistrial9 wrote: post #30
slg wrote: post #26

As 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

I've no idea if it matches your story, but I hear a lot of shows use SnapStream to find content? https://www.thewrap.com/the-secret-to-daily-show-colbert-rep...

And I remember back when Google Video was a thing that Google was indexing feeds of TV channels' subtitles. I remember there was a search engine at one point for subtitles? Presumably they still index live TV subtitles and content both to support YouTube TV but also to feed content into their YouTube Content ID program... I wonder if anyone's comparing TV subtitles to speech-to-text output to catch differences in either.

Here's an article about Google's early Video Search product for captions: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/brief-history-of-go... Apparently displaying and searching captions to the public for free lasted barely 6 months... Here's a screenshot showing a search result: https://informitv.com/2005/01/25/google-video-search-for-tel...

Re: Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]

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Post by slg »

toxik wrote: post #13
res0nat0r wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, here's another a 90 second clip demonstrating how Sinclair is a rightwing media news org, also using the same forced talking points across the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

That’s the exact same video as OP, buddy.

Although this one is the original source. It is only dated later because the video didn't originate on Youtube.
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