"Extremely dangerous" barely does it justice, Poli.
These savages will not be satisfied until they destroy the Republic.
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We can no longer trust the local news. Local news anchors are being handed something called a 'forced read' and being told they must say it on air, and act like it is their own opinion, or else they get fired. The local news has been sold out to national interests which are taking sides in political reporting.
The FCC has completely shirked it's duty and function to prevent a broadcasting and media monopoly.
Sinclair has been allowed to own too many news outlets, and uses them in a partisan way.
In many cases, your local news has become Trump Mouthpiece News.
You might as well be getting your news from the President's Twitter account:
"On local news stations across the United States last month, dozens of anchors gave the same speech to their combined millions of viewers.
It included a warning about fake news, a promise to report fairly and accurately and a request that viewers go to the station’s website and comment “if you believe our coverage is unfair.”
It may not have seemed strange to individual viewers. But Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin, had read a report last month from CNN, which quoted local station anchors who were uncomfortable with the speech.
Mr. Burke tracked down the stations and found when each had aired what he called a “forced read.”
Then he stitched together the various broadcasts to create a supercut of anchors eerily echoing the same lines:
“The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.”
“Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias.”
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
New York Times
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"Extremely dangerous" barely does it justice, Poli.
These savages will not be satisfied until they destroy the Republic.
We can't trust the local news any more.
The best source of being informed is the internet and an analytical mind.
Here's how to be well-informed in today's media landscape.
You read/hear/see something on modern media. Or perhaps at a site like this.
You go online and do a search. 'Follow the money' is a great guideline. Who profits and why?
Read from numerous sources. Avoid well-known biased sites, or only use them to learn what the easily duped are being told.
Verify the sources used by the sources. If a report or study is cited, click on that. see if the information was accurately depicted or if it was cherry picked.
Learn to discern fact from opinion.
NPR has a good reputation for avoiding big money influence.
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kudzu (04-11-2018)
dont really see how its different from what the left leaning stations do.
Nordberg (04-05-2018)
PoliTalker (04-03-2018)
Trump is right, fake news is a danger to our democracy.
If we could only get the Clinton News Network shut down.
Hello tsuke,
There is no rich conglomerate dictating ''must read' and 'must run' material to local left-leaning stations. Most of them are independent and NPR stations. They decide what to run, not some big for-profit corporation trying to sway public opinion as a part of their crony capitalism like the Sinclair empire does for the right.
Freedom of the press is letting local stations decide for them selves what to run.
Sinclair is Trump Mouthpiece Media. Part of the RWPM, Right Wing Propaganda Machine.
The free press does not include slanted media monopolies.
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Sinclair is only the latest part of taking over messaging in America by corporations and the rich. https://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=cablevision Corporations bought up newspapers, radio stations, movie studios, cable,magazines and everything else they could. Now they want to take over the local news. This is not benign. It is part of a plot to take over the messaging in America. This is a lot bigger and more dangerous than the vulpine Sinclair owning local news. It has a purpose. To control the news. Once they do that, democracy is dead.
The Nazis proved once you control what people see and hear, they will fall in line. I was just following orders.
PoliTalker (04-05-2018)
Pinheads don't seem to understand exactly what they read.....
On local news stations across the United States last month, dozens of anchors gave the same speech to their combined millions of viewers.
It included a warning about fake news, a promise to report fairly and accurately and a request that viewers go to the station’s website and comment “if you believe our coverage is unfair.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/b...rs-script.html
WTF is propaganda about that.....nothing....they even wanted their viewers to criticize their own coverage if they thought it was biased....
thats not something CNN would do.....
Sinclair owns the stations and wanted their viewers to know what their policy was and they not only have a right but an obligation to do that....and whose opinion do pinheads go to...?
CNN of course, the fake news network that had to retract fake articles in the past .....
In a company statement, Sinclair said Monday that the announcements “were responding to the public’s distrust in news generally” and that “the promos served no political agenda, and represented nothing more than an effort to differentiate our award-winning news programming from other, less reliable sources of information.”
“We aren’t sure of the motivation for the criticism, but find it curious that we would be attacked for asking our news people to remind their audiences that unsubstantiated stories exist on social media, which result in an ill-informed public with potentially dangerous consequences,” Livingston said in the statement. “It is ironic that we would be attacked for messages promoting our journalistic initiative for fair and objective reporting, and for specifically asking the public to hold our newsrooms accountable. Our local stations keep our audiences’ trust by staying focused on fact-based reporting and clearly identifying commentary.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.838c26537f6a
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
Hello NOVA,
The propaganda part is that it was represented as a question coming from the local anchor but in reality it was not at all the view of the local anchor. Anchors were told to read this statement word for word, pretend it was their own message or the message of the local station, only it wasn't. It was an attempt to gain the confidence of viewers under false pretenses.
Except it wasn't their own coverage. It is a network pretending over and over to be a local station - taking advantage of people who believe their local station is more credible than networks.
Wrong. CNN invites criticism.
But they didn't want them to know that Sinclair dictates content and requires them to pretend it is from their own local staff.
CNN is not fake news.
Just like a con-man, they want to first establish trust. People need to understand the owners of Sinclair are biased and heavily pro-Trump. The Sinclair network is like Trump Mouthpiece Network.
A lie. They know exactly why they were criticized. They are hoping you won't want to learn why.
And how many of those local newsrooms have experienced lay offs and staff cut-backs because so much of the broadcast content actually comes from one centralized source?
Also, notice how they did not claim that CNN was fake news? They probably broadcast pundits who say or show clips of Trump calling CNN fake news, but they do not maintain that as a network position? Looks to me like Sinclair is far more biased than CNN.
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I occasionally flip to Fox News to just see how far our realities are apart ... and it's amazing
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
wow. the left is crying about the indoctrination going on.
why? because it isn't them doing it.
I really hate you fuckers
Clinton deregulated the FCC, this is where it leads. 50 some odd companies in the US media space in the 1980s, 6 multinational corporations now; nothing but corporate state propaganda and perceptual reality management. You're being sold another (at least 1 more) bogus unfounded war even as we type.
No, they didn't....I DID...they said absolutely nothing political at all....left or right, liberal or conservative....nothing at all.....
and Trump calling CNN fake news has been aired on EVERY news station several times for months....
looks like Sinclair is far more civic minded than many other stations.....
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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