Posted on 03/31/2018 10:32:37 PM PDT by Revel
One explanation is that there is a central office which sends a list of the points to be made to all media outlets, which then obey.
Another explanation is that all the media bots think exactly the same way and know exactly what to say without any help.
https://thinkprogress.org/sinclair-forces-reporters-to-read-script-about-fake-news-63ae6fcea30e/
Saw this on The Conservative Treehouse website.
‘Mind control’ is one way to describe it, but I will only say that Journ0List version 4.0 (or whatever) is alive and well, more over-reaching than before.
Kewl!
It’s just an editorial that Sinclair group wanted read over the air on the stations they own, put together in a scary way. The editorial itself is anti-mind control.
fantastic
This isn’t from the wires. It’s corporate written script that’s mandatory to read verbatim.
But it’s being presented as a leftist tactic and script when in fact it’s from a conservative company. People have been so conditioned that they can’t discern when it’s right leaning or left leaning.
They’re not reporters, they’re news readers, if one can call it news. Most local news outfits are too cheap to bother with gathering their own local news to rep[ort and they instead rely on news “packages” delivered to them from pitch groups. Some “packages” are nothing more than ads posing as news. Some are from activist groups pitching an agenda. The anchors, being empty headed but well paid, then act out the news using the supplied text.
Meanwhile, real reporters doing real investigative journalism can now setup a website and do in depth investigative journalism with a fraction of the overhead of the dinosaur media.
And the dinosaur media wonder why viewership is down.
Curious. How did you become aware of this video?
This “pitch group” is the company that owns them.
The broadcaster is known for its right-of-center slant and requires stations across the U.S. to run segments that often include conservative video op-eds. It’s also known for featuring top conservatives, and hired former Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn last year.
It’s indoctrination, not mind control.
bttt
For my newest badge on my tin-foil hat, Why are they not suing each other for plagiarism? Rhetorical, at least.
Yikes! The local news my husband watches is on there!
It’s terrifying. It should be shown in every school.
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