A video that shows dozens of news anchors in the US reading the same script about the dangers of 'fake news' has provoked debate about media consolidation and bias.
Posted on 09/03/2020 11:26:15 AM PDT by ransomnote
(H/T FReeper Dead Corpse for the link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8&feature=youtu.be
Good video to share with those who are skeptical. Can help people understand why networks use keywords to attack the president. One day it's "reckless", the next day it's careless' and then repeat, repeat, repeat.
No, they are not being held hostage.
They are doing this because they want to.
I don’t feel sorry for them. They are not victims.
The walls are closing in. This could be the beginning of the end.
Of course they are all reading from the same anti Trump script.
they are subscribing to the same news provider... and espousing lazy journalism.
Just go back to Bush and “gravitas”, and you are 100% correct; they are not being held “hostage”, that’s f’n ridiculous.
No, they are not being held hostage.
They are doing this because they want to.
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I haven’t been trumpetting it much at all, but I’ve had this hypothesis for the last year or so that a lot of people in these news and media agencies have been... well... gotten to.
By that I mean, intimidated.
The figureheads and talking heads as well as the execs and anyone in charge.
This is based on no evidence at all, which is why I have mostly kept this theory to myself, but something just seems really too monolithic about the media lately.
From a market perspective, there is no reason for 85% of the media outlets to all compete for a political demographic that is far less than half the population. Something is more than a little fishy about it all.
I think they want to too. But it is possible that some, especially network execs have been compromised Jeffery Epstein style.
If you are honest about who owns & controls US media you will be slandered, even here.
For whom, though?
I would love to see the left completely obliterated and demoralized. That said without a spiritual revival in this country, it's only going to delay the inevitable.
There's something called an extinction burst. We could see one last dying gasp and effort by the left to hang on and survive. And it won't be pretty.
I haven’t been trumpetting it much at all, but I’ve had this hypothesis for the last year or so that a lot of people in these news and media agencies have been... well... gotten to.
By that I mean, intimidated.
The figureheads and talking heads as well as the execs and anyone in charge.
This is based on no evidence at all, which is why I have mostly kept this theory to myself, but something just seems really too monolithic about the media lately.
From a market perspective, there is no reason for 85% of the media outlets to all compete for a political demographic that is far less than half the population. Something is more than a little fishy about it all.
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You are correct! Good theory.
In the 60’s the CIA was revealed to have infiltrated the networks. There was a series of hearings wherein Network heads defended the practice. The results were in the Church Report. The CIA’s infiltration was then known as Project Mockingbird. I first read about it around 3 years ago.
As Project Mockingbird awareness grew (hey, the CIA controls our networks), the “scrubbers” came along to “modify” history. Just checking Wikipedia right now, Project Mockingbird is now defined as the CIA spying on the media!?
Just as in foreign countries, the US Media is being used to destabilize the United States and foment Coup. PResident Trump’s administration is “cleaning” the CIA but there are hold outs, foreign actors etc. still controlling much of the media.
Inbred homo.
Fact.
The only thing that has gotten to the media is a love of Marxism. Look at any Communications, Journalism, or liberal arts degree program and you will find courses filled with Neo-Marxist Post Modernist faculty and reading material. The collegiate system was converted into a Marxist production facility decades ago and almost everyone in the media is a Marxist whether they know it or not. This is why anyone with conservative leaning is relegated to the margins of the media complex and is drowned out by the cacophony of the “People’s Voice”.
- sundance @ Conservative Treehouse
The difference between Pravda and the U.S. Media is that former citizens of the
soviet-era knew they were being lied to, many Americans do not.
I’ve been on FR since 1998 and have been hearing about the demise of the MSM all that time. Yet, here we are.
This is old. These are all local subsidiaries of Sinclair who required that they all read it. It kind of backfired on them.
Or PDJT is the “burst” for our side.
But that is beginning to change. Sinclair’s size, rightwing politics and close connections to Donald Trump’s White House are starting to attract attention. Democrats are wading in to the fray and demanding answers over Sinclair’s close ties to the Trump administration, which, they say, could mean the group is getting preferential treatment.
This is Sinclair, 'the most dangerous US company you've never heard of' The Guardian
Overall, we rate Sinclair Broadcast Group Right Biased based on political affiliation with the Republican Party and the direction of network news programming. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to airing news shows with poor fact check records.
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