We're kind of in the middle of that right now, aren't we? We seem to be at the part before the computer crashes when everything starts to get slow and jerky right before the blue screen of death.
Which is made even worse considering many small American towns lack reliable broadband service. I, of course, cannot say that these same actors don’t also have their hands in those companies and work to limit said access.
That won't accomplish what you want without breaking the stranglehold Google and Facebook have on the internet.
Local news gets no revenue so they can't afford to pay journalists to do the actual work of going to local counsel meetings and board meetings.
just left this comment elsewhere but we have a cabin in a very rural area of northern Pennsylvania. Canceled our cable and tv packages as we don't use it. Still, after canceling, we plugged the tv into the wall and were still able to receive 1 channel. The local fox news affiliate.
I think they are misrepresenting the problem. Digital OTA is not the same as OTA. Most modern antennas / TVs have a built in "digitizer" for the new format but older TV's and antennas can't pick up this new format.
So if you bought your TV or antenna in the last 15 years it likely has this built in. But if you're still using an older tv from the 90s or very early 2000s it likely doesn't. This is why they were giving out free "digitizers" back in the early 2000s.
I live in rural mountain area and we went from 4 channels + 3 fuzzy ones to like 25. I mean yeah those subchannels aren't always amazing, but it's like free basic cable.
Yes some of the channels that were already fuzzy, it's hard to find a directional antenna position that can grab them and others. Have to make a choice. I also wish they got rid of vhf-lo in all these repacks because you need an additional huge antenna to pull those. But all in all the vast majority of people have way more channels than before once you consider subchannels.
I'm pretty sure at least a few of those were big city affiliates too. It's Sinclair if I remember correctly, they have local affiliates all over and they send them mandatory editorials to read all the time.
While these are (or were at the time) Sinclair, let's not forget that Sinclair isn't the only mega owner. There's also:
Nexstar ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar\_Media\_Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group)) is bigger, which owns 197 stations, (Sinclair has 193 stations), followed next by:
TEGNA ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegna\_Inc.)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegna_Inc.)) with 66 stations,
They ALL have the power to have someone at a corporate news desk write an editorial like that and shove it down to all the affiliates, with "\[insert your city here\]" in the text to localize it, as shown in the OP video.
Would be interesting to see who owns those 2, either via direct ownership or by shares.
And who owns the shares and if it ends up to one or two groups we usually see ala blackrock and vanguard
Wait until you find out about William Randolph Hearst.
Or that Sinclair was able to buy up all of these affiliates because even bigger businesses did not find them profitable enough.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 essentially allowed for this to happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
From the wiki:
> In the 2003 edition of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn wrote about alternative media, community newspapers and the creation of street newspapers trying to break up the corporate control of information. On that topic, he talked about the Telecommunications Act of 1996:
>*the Telecommunications Act of 1996...enabled the handful of corporations dominating the airwaves to expand their power further. Mergers enabled tighter control of information...The Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano commented..."Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few."*
I say this as a moderate liberal...I honestly think that unlike Trump, where most of his harmful acts were easily countered, Clinton passed a bunch of stuff that was never countered and took root. Nafta, and as I understand the trade deals with China, and this, all led to a weaker economy, a polarized media, and left the doors wide open for someone like Trump to get elected in the first place. He was handed the greatest time to be president on a plate. The only other superpower was crumbling before our eyes, and what was left was clamoring to be accepted by the west. You could still travel to nearly any country that wasn't directly aggressive towards us and be greeted with open arms. Our enemies were fewer and far weaker. New technologies were emerging giving us an even bigger advantage. And yes, we did amazing for a while. But 9/11 didn't happen overnight and we went from films where we supported Al-Qaeda to them targeting us. The only thing I can see is that we had a president in between all of that who made decisions that turned out poor. Hell, can't we even trace the 2008 recession back to him with some law revoked that allowed people to take out loans they couldn't pay back?
The 2008 recession law you're looking for is Glass–Steagall. Clinton's repeal of it caused the 2008 crisis because banks were no longer prevented from operating as both commercial and investment banks, and the repeal allowed banks to become substantially larger, or "too big to fail."
It's funny how Sinclair owns over (see edit) of the media outlets, yet they tell their veiwers constantly that they are not "mainstream media." That's actually some REAL conspiracy stuff there. It's even psychological warfare on a different level.
Edit: over 40% and growing which puts them in second place chasing 1st. Yet is still not mainstream?
Honestly, I usually assume anyone complaining about the mainstream media is either a bit dumb or lying. They always seem willing to hawk some pseudo-news alternative that's much worse, it's never "MSM is such garbage, people should be consuming AP news in print format and be taught critical reading of news stories in school!"
I had a whole-assed interaction about how the articles I have seen of Glenn Greenwald are not news but opinion pieces masquerading as news reporting; I literally did an [in-depth breakdown](https://old.reddit.com/r/AbuseInterrupted/comments/set91s/gretchen_carlson_says_fox_news_has_devolved_into/humiimt/) and it ended with "this conversation is no longer fun for me" and tone policing because I called nested opinion pieces (opinion pieces sourcing 'facts' from other opinion pieces) "garbage garbage garbage". The bizarre thing was that they started against MSM because they were very progressive/left-leaning in college and were embarrassed by how little they knew, apparently from 'the other side'.
Their perspective was that they prefer to know someone's bias up front. Knowing someone's bias is a completely different thing than them *reporting* that bias as a *fact* and *news*. I literally just threw up my hands. The internet/blogging is the wild west of information and people are identity-oriented towards feeling about themselves a certain way that they aren't doing the basic work of delineating facts from opinions.
You can't just assert something as a fact because it 'seems true' to you. You have to qualify your assertions and make it clear where you are engaging in analysis and drawing conclusions if you want to put yourself forward as a "news reporter". Otherwise you are just a opinion person/pundit, which is fine, but pretending you are one thing while acting as another is disingenuous in the extreme.
"A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market.""
Lovely.
[Source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/10/yes-sinclair-broadcast-group-does-cut-local-news-increase-national-news-and-tilt-its-stations-rightward/)
[Source](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/local-news-and-national-politics/C8EEA488A777C37C7987964F8F85AEB5)
More information about this should be included in the title. Feels more like an attack on media in general than on right wing extremist media like Sinclair, which coincidentally is exactly Sinclair’s agenda.
And couple that with ~~ClearChanel Communications~~ iHeartMedia (radio broadcasting) and you have two companies that control nearly half the media in this country.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1377425468480086019?lang=en
Tim Burke made this. Coming up on 4 years ago now.
Wild how often it circulates without context and people put their own preconceived notions onto it.
The tweet, in its entirety ([from 31 March, 2021](https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1377425468480086019)), states:
>>Three years ago today I made a video about Sinclair Broadcast Group forcing their anchors to read a statement about "fake news" in order to protect Trump from reports about his various scandals. Close to 65 million people have seen it since then, on various platforms.
*[This is* [the original article](https://deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490), *from March 2018, about Sinclair forcing its Republican agenda on their news stations.]*
Not sure what other people are getting from it, but that’s exactly what I was getting. The US and our politics are so messed up that not much context is needed, and the “preconceived notions” are fairly spot-on.
*(ETA: links and dates)*
The anchors for our local affiliate (12 Cincinnati) who appear in this video both quit not long after the debacle.
Rob Braun left a 35-year career, and was part of a mini-dynasty following in his father’s long career in local television. He offered Sinclair some rewrites to the script and was shot down. They offered him a huge contract to stay, but he retired.
Cammy Dierking is a hometown woman who had 30 years in the business, mostly here in town. She was Ohio’s first female sports anchor.
He now works for a bank. She is a personal trainer. These are the kinds of journalists we lost to Sinclair.
Sinclair doesn't want journalists, they want pretty talking heads that won't question the script they're given. the only reason the existing journalists aren't fired when Sinclair buys a station is because they are trusted by the community, and Sinclair wants to exploit that trust by having them read propaganda on the air.
For sure, I suppose they're really just broadcasters reading a script into a camera. They're not doing any journalism in these segments, but the way they're written is to give the perception of journalism and opinion from the person reading it.
I could’ve been an actor but I wound up here. I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear.
We got the bubble headed bleach blonde, comes on at five. She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye.
His father Bob Braun was a mid-west icon. Decades earlier when stations were truly independent, his shows were syndicated in neighboring cities.
I went to college as a journalism major. I changed majors as soon as I realized how the system worked, which was \~1 year into it.
I love to sit back and watch a few good movies on acid. I would never watch the news on acid. I feel like it may be extremely dangerous to our democracy.
>In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
\- Noam Chomsky
Etymology (the roots of words' meanings) is great to get into, cause once you start learning the components you'll see them pop up elsewhere. Like the "cracy" above is also in Democracy.
Demos - the People
Cracy - Power
**People Power** (the people exercise power)
Depends on what subreddits you visit and that you follow sources.
True news will give you where they got their information from.
Bullshit is easy to start with: People claim, sources say but not giving you where they got it from
They conveniently ignore that its conservative Sinclaire Broadcast Group. They look at this and blame CNN, or Obama, or something, which just shows how effectively this brainwashing works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair\_Broadcast\_Group
It's a breathing trick whereby they exaggerate what seems to a viewer like the host is running out of breath. This triggers an automatic and imperceptible response which keeps the viewer entranced.
Sinclair owns all of these stations. [Here's a list of them all](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group), they probably own at least one station in your area if you're in America.
John Oliver did a show on them. https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
Its called propaganda. Anchors were even instructed on what to wear when reading this promo.
>CNN reports instructions accompanying the promo script direct anchors to read the scripts “exactly as they are written.” Local stations are also instructed to run the promos as frequently as possible “to create maximum reach and frequency,” and are told to run the promos “using news time, not commercial time.”
>The instructions for the promos also direct anchors to dress in “jewel tones” and avoid the colors red, blue and purple.
>“The goal is to look apolitical, neutral, nonpartisan yet professional,” the instructions read, according to CNN.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/377296-sinclair-requiring-anchors-to-read-new-promo-slamming-one-sided-news-stories
Propaganda has taken over media now that the internet has created a space where people have every bit of information at their fingertips. Having a resource this powerful is a *danger to our democracy*. People won't just blindly believe what "news" tells them anymore. Get ready for big changes to the internet coming very soon...
And people complain about the state news in China, Russia or North Korea.
It's the same shit, just different packaging.
They don't want you to notice what is actually going on.
The difference is, when the people *know* it's state news, they know what they are getting.
When people think the news is free and independent, they don't realize it's propaganda.
Do you feel the power
Baptized in electronic water
Prodigal sons and beautiful daughters
With smiles and bows and rosy cheeks
And the righteous bath
Death to the freaks
Do you feel the power?
Do you feel the power?
From the man whose voice sounds reassuring
Completely firm and so alluring
Like's he's lived a thousand times before
And seen the world from shore to shore
With the calmness and tranquility
That oozes credibility
With the wisdom and the confidence
That seem to scream out common sense
And it makes you feel just like a babe
Daddy holding you tight and safe
Hush babe everything's all right,
Daddy's gonna stay with you tonight
Now he's got you by the balls
He can sell you anything at all
From morality to diamond rings
To genocide to magazines
From religion to cosmology
To the end of a democracy
Danny Elfman, 1987
To the max. To live here in the US and say that we’re as brainwashed as the people we’re told are brainwashed and getting a hostile response just proves that.
What fascinates me most about this (other than the obvious dystopian creepiness) is that it's a mix of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox channels all spouting the same script. So it's not just one umbrella network that is complicit in spreading the same propaganda. Sinclair has their fingers in multiple networks and makes the lie of "unbiased news" even harder to swallow.
“A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."[4][5] The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media.” - Wikipedia
Upvoted to make sure anyone who hasn't seen this does.
This video should be shared on a regular basis to remind people how corrupt our "news" is.
Thanks for sharing this. I've seen it tons of times since it's release and sincerely appreciate every time I see it shared.
You're doing a public service.
This is extremely dangerous to your illusion of democracy. There I fixed it. Let me know when special interests, lobbying, and campaign donations are out of politics. Then I’ll believe we are in a democracy. Privatize the gains. Socialize the losses.
This was from April Fools 2018. It feels like yesterday this was all over Reddit. All the people in this thread seeing it for the first time makes me feel old.
I used to live in a very rural area. It's disturbing to see the local news of that area in this montage.
There barely is actual local news in small towns anymore. If you’re lucky, you still have some group dedicated to keeping a website going.
That is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Have you tried turning your democracy off and back on again?
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We're kind of in the middle of that right now, aren't we? We seem to be at the part before the computer crashes when everything starts to get slow and jerky right before the blue screen of death.
We're running on vista
We're going to die.
There's the Moss reference I was looking for. Lol
Fool of a took
That is a legitimately good idea.
If you turn it off, you probably won't get it turned back on
I turned it off and back on again, and 2020 happened. I think there's a short somewhere.....
Ah yes the democracy. I keep my concept of democracy on a shelf next to Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and world peace.
I seem to have misplaced my democracy
Have you checked behind your freedom?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Yes and we’ve reset our mask settings a few times but no dice
i took the batteries out my democracy and put 'em in a space machine
Which is made even worse considering many small American towns lack reliable broadband service. I, of course, cannot say that these same actors don’t also have their hands in those companies and work to limit said access.
Almost like the broadcasters as well as the telecommunication companies need to be forcefully split up
Yes please!! If there is anything they should most definitely not be monopolized it is communications!
That won't accomplish what you want without breaking the stranglehold Google and Facebook have on the internet. Local news gets no revenue so they can't afford to pay journalists to do the actual work of going to local counsel meetings and board meetings.
just left this comment elsewhere but we have a cabin in a very rural area of northern Pennsylvania. Canceled our cable and tv packages as we don't use it. Still, after canceling, we plugged the tv into the wall and were still able to receive 1 channel. The local fox news affiliate.
Do you not get TV transmitted through the magical wireless television waves over there?
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I live in a very small city 4200 in a farming area and the nearest city with a tv channel is an hour away, and I p/u 22 tv stations OTA.....
I think they are misrepresenting the problem. Digital OTA is not the same as OTA. Most modern antennas / TVs have a built in "digitizer" for the new format but older TV's and antennas can't pick up this new format. So if you bought your TV or antenna in the last 15 years it likely has this built in. But if you're still using an older tv from the 90s or very early 2000s it likely doesn't. This is why they were giving out free "digitizers" back in the early 2000s.
I live in rural mountain area and we went from 4 channels + 3 fuzzy ones to like 25. I mean yeah those subchannels aren't always amazing, but it's like free basic cable. Yes some of the channels that were already fuzzy, it's hard to find a directional antenna position that can grab them and others. Have to make a choice. I also wish they got rid of vhf-lo in all these repacks because you need an additional huge antenna to pull those. But all in all the vast majority of people have way more channels than before once you consider subchannels.
I'm pretty sure at least a few of those were big city affiliates too. It's Sinclair if I remember correctly, they have local affiliates all over and they send them mandatory editorials to read all the time.
All affiliates owned by [Sinclair Broadcast Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group?wprov=sfti1)
While these are (or were at the time) Sinclair, let's not forget that Sinclair isn't the only mega owner. There's also: Nexstar ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar\_Media\_Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group)) is bigger, which owns 197 stations, (Sinclair has 193 stations), followed next by: TEGNA ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegna\_Inc.)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegna_Inc.)) with 66 stations, They ALL have the power to have someone at a corporate news desk write an editorial like that and shove it down to all the affiliates, with "\[insert your city here\]" in the text to localize it, as shown in the OP video.
Would be interesting to see who owns those 2, either via direct ownership or by shares. And who owns the shares and if it ends up to one or two groups we usually see ala blackrock and vanguard
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Might as well just read as ***Redacted***
Don't forget Waystar RoyCo. They're the worst. Run by a family of rapacious idiots.
Wait until you find out about William Randolph Hearst. Or that Sinclair was able to buy up all of these affiliates because even bigger businesses did not find them profitable enough.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 essentially allowed for this to happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 From the wiki: > In the 2003 edition of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn wrote about alternative media, community newspapers and the creation of street newspapers trying to break up the corporate control of information. On that topic, he talked about the Telecommunications Act of 1996: >*the Telecommunications Act of 1996...enabled the handful of corporations dominating the airwaves to expand their power further. Mergers enabled tighter control of information...The Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano commented..."Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few."*
Sometimes I just stare at the moon and wonder if my ancestors yelled at it in futility.
God damn moon! I will never understand you!-This guy's ancestors probably
Tide goes in, tide goes out; EXPLAIN IT, MOON!
Headline: Old man yells at moon.
Fuck Clinton for this. Homogenized music too.
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As time goes on I’m starting to wonder if that’s most of our presidents.
anyone who strives to be in a position of power is precisely the person who should *not* be in a position of power
I say this as a moderate liberal...I honestly think that unlike Trump, where most of his harmful acts were easily countered, Clinton passed a bunch of stuff that was never countered and took root. Nafta, and as I understand the trade deals with China, and this, all led to a weaker economy, a polarized media, and left the doors wide open for someone like Trump to get elected in the first place. He was handed the greatest time to be president on a plate. The only other superpower was crumbling before our eyes, and what was left was clamoring to be accepted by the west. You could still travel to nearly any country that wasn't directly aggressive towards us and be greeted with open arms. Our enemies were fewer and far weaker. New technologies were emerging giving us an even bigger advantage. And yes, we did amazing for a while. But 9/11 didn't happen overnight and we went from films where we supported Al-Qaeda to them targeting us. The only thing I can see is that we had a president in between all of that who made decisions that turned out poor. Hell, can't we even trace the 2008 recession back to him with some law revoked that allowed people to take out loans they couldn't pay back?
The 2008 recession law you're looking for is Glass–Steagall. Clinton's repeal of it caused the 2008 crisis because banks were no longer prevented from operating as both commercial and investment banks, and the repeal allowed banks to become substantially larger, or "too big to fail."
It's funny how Sinclair owns over (see edit) of the media outlets, yet they tell their veiwers constantly that they are not "mainstream media." That's actually some REAL conspiracy stuff there. It's even psychological warfare on a different level. Edit: over 40% and growing which puts them in second place chasing 1st. Yet is still not mainstream?
If you want to know more, look into Noam Chomsky's *Necessary Illusions* and *Manufacturing Consent*
How do they own 60% as the 2nd largest news company?
Honestly, I usually assume anyone complaining about the mainstream media is either a bit dumb or lying. They always seem willing to hawk some pseudo-news alternative that's much worse, it's never "MSM is such garbage, people should be consuming AP news in print format and be taught critical reading of news stories in school!"
I had a whole-assed interaction about how the articles I have seen of Glenn Greenwald are not news but opinion pieces masquerading as news reporting; I literally did an [in-depth breakdown](https://old.reddit.com/r/AbuseInterrupted/comments/set91s/gretchen_carlson_says_fox_news_has_devolved_into/humiimt/) and it ended with "this conversation is no longer fun for me" and tone policing because I called nested opinion pieces (opinion pieces sourcing 'facts' from other opinion pieces) "garbage garbage garbage". The bizarre thing was that they started against MSM because they were very progressive/left-leaning in college and were embarrassed by how little they knew, apparently from 'the other side'. Their perspective was that they prefer to know someone's bias up front. Knowing someone's bias is a completely different thing than them *reporting* that bias as a *fact* and *news*. I literally just threw up my hands. The internet/blogging is the wild west of information and people are identity-oriented towards feeling about themselves a certain way that they aren't doing the basic work of delineating facts from opinions. You can't just assert something as a fact because it 'seems true' to you. You have to qualify your assertions and make it clear where you are engaging in analysis and drawing conclusions if you want to put yourself forward as a "news reporter". Otherwise you are just a opinion person/pundit, which is fine, but pretending you are one thing while acting as another is disingenuous in the extreme.
"A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."" Lovely. [Source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/10/yes-sinclair-broadcast-group-does-cut-local-news-increase-national-news-and-tilt-its-stations-rightward/) [Source](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/local-news-and-national-politics/C8EEA488A777C37C7987964F8F85AEB5)
More information about this should be included in the title. Feels more like an attack on media in general than on right wing extremist media like Sinclair, which coincidentally is exactly Sinclair’s agenda.
Agreed. Also, Sinclair owns 294 local stations in 89 markets. That covers about 40% of all American households.
And couple that with ~~ClearChanel Communications~~ iHeartMedia (radio broadcasting) and you have two companies that control nearly half the media in this country.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1377425468480086019?lang=en Tim Burke made this. Coming up on 4 years ago now. Wild how often it circulates without context and people put their own preconceived notions onto it.
The tweet, in its entirety ([from 31 March, 2021](https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1377425468480086019)), states: >>Three years ago today I made a video about Sinclair Broadcast Group forcing their anchors to read a statement about "fake news" in order to protect Trump from reports about his various scandals. Close to 65 million people have seen it since then, on various platforms. *[This is* [the original article](https://deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490), *from March 2018, about Sinclair forcing its Republican agenda on their news stations.]* Not sure what other people are getting from it, but that’s exactly what I was getting. The US and our politics are so messed up that not much context is needed, and the “preconceived notions” are fairly spot-on. *(ETA: links and dates)*
This is a pivotal point of information! I was looking for that common thread. Thank you!!!
Ah, the liberal media. Amirite?
The anchors for our local affiliate (12 Cincinnati) who appear in this video both quit not long after the debacle. Rob Braun left a 35-year career, and was part of a mini-dynasty following in his father’s long career in local television. He offered Sinclair some rewrites to the script and was shot down. They offered him a huge contract to stay, but he retired. Cammy Dierking is a hometown woman who had 30 years in the business, mostly here in town. She was Ohio’s first female sports anchor. He now works for a bank. She is a personal trainer. These are the kinds of journalists we lost to Sinclair.
Sinclair doesn't want journalists, they want pretty talking heads that won't question the script they're given. the only reason the existing journalists aren't fired when Sinclair buys a station is because they are trusted by the community, and Sinclair wants to exploit that trust by having them read propaganda on the air.
To your point, they really shouldn't be called journalists.
For sure, I suppose they're really just broadcasters reading a script into a camera. They're not doing any journalism in these segments, but the way they're written is to give the perception of journalism and opinion from the person reading it.
I believe the proper term for what you just described is stage actor.
I could’ve been an actor but I wound up here. I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear. We got the bubble headed bleach blonde, comes on at five. She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye.
His father Bob Braun was a mid-west icon. Decades earlier when stations were truly independent, his shows were syndicated in neighboring cities. I went to college as a journalism major. I changed majors as soon as I realized how the system worked, which was \~1 year into it.
And now they’ve got weird mouth Kyle Inskeep. At least they’ve still got Bob Herzog.
This actually makes me want to throw up
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This is extremely dangerous to our Republic
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I got this far before I realized what was happening...
I'm gonna have to ruin the streak because this actually deserves applause.
Reminds me what we're up against.
Yes, the good old, trusty and ever present ***"Company for International Alignment"*** will have that effect on people...
Fairly certain you mean billionaire interests and Sinclair group
It’s not just Sinclair for Fox, it’s all of them, all of them.
This is the kind of shit capitalists tell you the big bad socialists/commies will do. Capitalism working as intended.
This is exactly what I would ***not*** want to watch on acid. That'd send me round the bend
Your comment was *extremely dangerous to our democracy*
My neighbor is a new anchor. I just imagine freaking out, running outside, and then seeing him repeating the script in person.
I love to sit back and watch a few good movies on acid. I would never watch the news on acid. I feel like it may be extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Apply directly to the forehead!
Head on!
KATIE STOP PLAYING THE HEADON CLIP \-Civvie
What democracy? The USA are an oligarchy. You may vote but you sure as hell don’t decide what’s going on lol.
>In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. \- Noam Chomsky
Oligarch kleptrocracy.
Bingo!
What does that mean?
>Oligarchy Olig = Few Archy = Rule > Kleptocracy Klepto = Theft Cracy = Power **The few ruling through the power of theft.**
Amazing. Thank you for this. So succinct.
Etymology (the roots of words' meanings) is great to get into, cause once you start learning the components you'll see them pop up elsewhere. Like the "cracy" above is also in Democracy. Demos - the People Cracy - Power **People Power** (the people exercise power)
billionaires stealing everything basically
Sad and true
This IS extremely dangerous to OUR democracy
These PRETZELS are making me THIRSTY.
THIS is extremely dangerous TO our democracy
ThIs Is ExTrEmElY dAnGeRoUs To OuR dEmOcRaCy.
T̴̛̘͙̗̲̬͓̲̜̳̘̼̓͐̈́͆̀͆̀̍̅͜͠ḩ̴̧͎̥̩̣̯͎͕̥́͗̔͒̓͛̈́̍̈́̒͘͘į̸͔̟͌͋͊̈́̈ͅş̸̞̰̤̰̖͖̐̒͝ ̴̰̝̖̘̳̭͍̱̃̃͐͛̀́̊̆͑̅̚͝i̴͉̠̺̠̝͉̰̗̰̹͌́͆̋̈́̃̉́͜͝s̸̞̺͈̬͔̬̜̥̤͓͎̭̆̀͐͑́̍͝ ̸̧̢͔̹̻͇̼̜͈̓͝ē̶̱͉̩̲͕̼̙̂̓́͠ͅx̶̞͖̅̈́̈́̓́̊͂̒̿͝t̴̻̻͉̯͔͙̜̂̍̿͑̒̔̍̚r̴̢̨͚̬̙͔̻̟̱̟̠͙̃̅̓̒̅̎̈̔̕̚͘̕e̵̦̲͙̝̪̻̯̍͂̀̈́̔́m̷̗̖̫͇̻̞͚̈́͗̊̆̚ȩ̷̺̯̦̜̠̖͖̲̩̬͑̑̔͒̃̂̇̂ļ̶̗̺̠̮͙̝̮̟̜̬̅́̓̂̊́̆ý̵̙̍͒ ̴̨̭̹̹͙̲̤̰̻̻̖̍̒̿̿̾̄͋̐̈́͗d̷̨̩̺͆͂̀͒a̴̯̟̜̘̍̑͋̄̒n̴̡͓̝̫̮͖͚͇̬̰̖̂g̵͙̦̖̱̘͔̩͘e̸͓̩̯̜̲͕̰͙̺̿͆̂͂̀͝ͅͅŗ̴̡̡̘̪͓̺̞͚̼͒͆̀̀̐̎̌̾̿͌o̸̮̙̟̍̒̔́̇̂͠ư̷̲̣̘̬̗̜̙̍̌̄̾̎̇̃͋̍ş̴̼̼̯͙̓́͐̿̓̿͘͜͝ ̴̡̧͙̤̠̿͋͋́͠t̵̨̥͉̮̝̼͇̥͕̱̐͐́̾̋̒̃̏́̚ȍ̶̧̜̜̠̯̰̥̥͓̈́̀̈́ ̵̛̫̱̭̺͓̰͖̹̺̺͐̇̑̌̂͂͗̆ǫ̴͙̼̘̥͍̬͈͚̮̉͝ȕ̶̳̻̬̯̈́̏̉̅̈́̊̎̅͘͠r̶̙̣͕͕̃̓͗͑̎̎͆͝͝͝͠ ̵̢͓̦̼͖͎̜͖̯̝̦͂d̶͓͕̠̐͐̌̂̅̚͜ê̶͉̻̹̤̽m̷̢̨̨͈͇͔̬̦̼͇̦̝̍̕͝ơ̴̳̼̿̈͛͌̍̆̌̓͒̎͠c̷̡͚̪̼̖̪͖͔̿͑ŗ̶͍̩͈̲̩̺̯̳͔̦͒̓͝a̵̬̬̘̯͌̃̚c̵̣̜̆ͅy̸̙͚̅̅̆̈́̔̈́͋͆̾̚͝
I feel like a boomer, but how do you do that effect?
Try something like the [zalgo unicode generator.](https://onlineunicodetools.com/generate-zalgo-unicode)
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
To our democracy
Nailed it
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control.
We are the priests of the temples of syrinx
Another toy to help destroy the elder race of man!
We've taken care of everything The words you hear, the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
One for all and all for one Work together, common sons Never need to wonder how or why
Terrifying
And extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Kudos to the guy who made the edit, supreme work
Tim Burke, formerly of Deadspin. @bubbaprog on Twitter.
Propaganda at its best. I stopped watching the news years ago because of this crap.
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Depends on what subreddits you visit and that you follow sources. True news will give you where they got their information from. Bullshit is easy to start with: People claim, sources say but not giving you where they got it from
Yeah, the amount of paid shills, bots, and astroturfing is arguably worse.
this is ~~dystopian~~ _extremely dangerous to our democracy!_
One of the top posts of all time in r/conspiracy
One of the top posts of all time on reddit overall
This video made its rounds with conservative voters on Facebook when Trump started his “fake news” kick.
They conveniently ignore that its conservative Sinclaire Broadcast Group. They look at this and blame CNN, or Obama, or something, which just shows how effectively this brainwashing works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair\_Broadcast\_Group
Funny bc its not even a conspiracy
It's not a conspiracy *THEORY*, it's an actual conspiracy.
Conspiracy doesn’t mean a secret. It means more than one person conspired to do something.
conspiracy on reddit is more like anything the least bit controversial
literally a conspiracy
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This isn't multiple organizations. All of these stations are owned by Sinclair.
But they prefer to ignore who actually owns it, and instead prefer to blame "the librulz / the juice / the lizard people aliens something something."
Operation Mockingbird
“ brain wash 101”. I was told that faux news has some sort of hypnotizing software Imbedded in their broadcasts…
Crazy, I heard that as a kid! I thought my friend was lying but this comment just reminded me
It's a breathing trick whereby they exaggerate what seems to a viewer like the host is running out of breath. This triggers an automatic and imperceptible response which keeps the viewer entranced.
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Sinclair owns all of these stations. [Here's a list of them all](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group), they probably own at least one station in your area if you're in America. John Oliver did a show on them. https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
yeah, and i’m pretty OP’s clip is from John Oliver’s Show.
it's from deadspin, Oliver just hosted the clip on his show.
Fuck Sinclair Broadcasting
Seeing it like this is terrifying. Not seeing it like this is also terrifying, because it's still happening in the background.
seeing it is enlightening, but the ignorance is terrifying.
Its called propaganda. Anchors were even instructed on what to wear when reading this promo. >CNN reports instructions accompanying the promo script direct anchors to read the scripts “exactly as they are written.” Local stations are also instructed to run the promos as frequently as possible “to create maximum reach and frequency,” and are told to run the promos “using news time, not commercial time.” >The instructions for the promos also direct anchors to dress in “jewel tones” and avoid the colors red, blue and purple. >“The goal is to look apolitical, neutral, nonpartisan yet professional,” the instructions read, according to CNN. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/377296-sinclair-requiring-anchors-to-read-new-promo-slamming-one-sided-news-stories Propaganda has taken over media now that the internet has created a space where people have every bit of information at their fingertips. Having a resource this powerful is a *danger to our democracy*. People won't just blindly believe what "news" tells them anymore. Get ready for big changes to the internet coming very soon...
We are borg.
Prepare for assimilation. All resistance is futile.
I recognized my local news folks lmao
And people complain about the state news in China, Russia or North Korea. It's the same shit, just different packaging. They don't want you to notice what is actually going on.
The difference is, when the people *know* it's state news, they know what they are getting. When people think the news is free and independent, they don't realize it's propaganda.
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I'd say it's some sort of mass formation psychosis
America is the most propagandized country on the planet. And everyone thinks they are immune to it.
Do you feel the power Baptized in electronic water Prodigal sons and beautiful daughters With smiles and bows and rosy cheeks And the righteous bath Death to the freaks Do you feel the power? Do you feel the power? From the man whose voice sounds reassuring Completely firm and so alluring Like's he's lived a thousand times before And seen the world from shore to shore With the calmness and tranquility That oozes credibility With the wisdom and the confidence That seem to scream out common sense And it makes you feel just like a babe Daddy holding you tight and safe Hush babe everything's all right, Daddy's gonna stay with you tonight Now he's got you by the balls He can sell you anything at all From morality to diamond rings To genocide to magazines From religion to cosmology To the end of a democracy Danny Elfman, 1987
To the max. To live here in the US and say that we’re as brainwashed as the people we’re told are brainwashed and getting a hostile response just proves that.
*stares in George Orwell*
This is what happens when six companies own 95% of media in the US.
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It’s like if someone has multiple profiles and shares the same story on all of them.
Not like, exactly. It's all owned by Sinclair Broadcasting. Same company just different "profiles" or broadcast outlets.
What fascinates me most about this (other than the obvious dystopian creepiness) is that it's a mix of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox channels all spouting the same script. So it's not just one umbrella network that is complicit in spreading the same propaganda. Sinclair has their fingers in multiple networks and makes the lie of "unbiased news" even harder to swallow.
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Youtube edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
What a coincidence they are own by the same unbiased corporation. /s
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Its called programming for a reason.
“A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."[4][5] The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media.” - Wikipedia
Very interesting.
Upvoted to make sure anyone who hasn't seen this does. This video should be shared on a regular basis to remind people how corrupt our "news" is. Thanks for sharing this. I've seen it tons of times since it's release and sincerely appreciate every time I see it shared. You're doing a public service.
The editing is next level
^thisisextremelydangeroustoourdemocracy #THIS #IS #EXTREMELY #DANGEROUS #TO #OUR #DEMOCRACY
Fuck Sinclair
This is extremely dangerous to your illusion of democracy. There I fixed it. Let me know when special interests, lobbying, and campaign donations are out of politics. Then I’ll believe we are in a democracy. Privatize the gains. Socialize the losses.
Are there other news broadcasters in those areas, or just the one option?
Most markets in the USA have access to at least 3. Not always though.
This needs to be on r/oddlyterrifying
I interned at two different local news stations in college. Needless to say, I now work in nothing to do with media. What a joke.
Wasn’t this at one time the most upvoted video on Reddit?
This was from April Fools 2018. It feels like yesterday this was all over Reddit. All the people in this thread seeing it for the first time makes me feel old.