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Sinclair's script for stations ["Extremely dangerous for our democracy"]
You Tube ^ | March 31, 2018

Posted on 04/01/2018 7:43:26 AM PDT by AndyJackson

Extremely humerous - A pastiche of common memes reiterated across the spectrum of newsbabes and metrosexual newsboobs. This video puts the lie to any claim that we have "independent" journalists providing our television news.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: collusion; dangeroustodemocracy; fakenews; media; msm; sinclair; sinclairbrainwash
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1 posted on 04/01/2018 7:43:26 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

The phrase “our democracy” should set off the BS detector.


2 posted on 04/01/2018 7:47:13 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: AndyJackson

Two things. Where did you find this and second, is it pro conservative or pro liberal?


3 posted on 04/01/2018 7:48:46 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: AndyJackson

Rush has done this for a long time. He plays back MSM newsreaders repeating exactly the same line from multiple stations/sources/networks. The term “mind numbed robots” is appropriate.

And, of course, it demonstrates the fact that far from being smart folks, the “personalities” are nothing but poorly educated marshmallow majors doing virtually the only thing they can - read other people’s output. But they still think that they know more than you do.


4 posted on 04/01/2018 7:51:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: joesbucks
Found it on Reddit/r/the_Donald. Reddit tries to remove it whenever it is posted which means media hacks and their political subscribers and overlords don't like it.

You can't possibly believe that this is pro-liberal.

5 posted on 04/01/2018 7:52:20 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Da Coyote
they still think that they know more than you do.

Well they must. They are getting their information straight from the smartest people in the world like Podesta and Sydvicious.

6 posted on 04/01/2018 7:53:52 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

It’s being circulated on some conservative web sites and through Facebook as being pro Hillary. It’s been on this site twice before you posted and the majority of the responses have been it’s a liberal and pro Hillary tactic.


7 posted on 04/01/2018 7:55:38 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

I can’t see how any reasonable person could possibly interpret it as pro-Hillary.


8 posted on 04/01/2018 7:56:53 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: AndyJackson
The Gannett chain was running the "same" letter to the editor for each of its papers, each with a different name.

Immediately after it was pointed out they went "link only" on the internet to minimize the ease that its "fraud", or at least its lack of scrutiny on say, "seminar" letter writers, could be pointed out.

9 posted on 04/01/2018 8:01:14 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: joesbucks
is it pro conservative or pro liberal?

It is neither. It is pro freedom, and shows how large media conglomerates control what is said on TV news shows across the country - down to the exact words said by the hosts. And the coordinated messaging goes across networks, so news shows from Fox, NBC, CBS, etc. have people saying the exact same thing.

10 posted on 04/01/2018 8:19:45 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: AndyJackson; joesbucks

Conservative Treehouse posted it too ....

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/31/brilliant-agitprop-outlines-modern-media/

This shows the media as nothing more than scripted “talking heads”, but we knew that already!


11 posted on 04/01/2018 8:26:20 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMPIt)
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To: AndyJackson

Television is a dying medium and Sinclair and other big companies can only maintain local news service by consolidating operations and pasting in news segments on the local stations from a central source.

Sinclair is for the GOP and will promote that party over the Dems of course.

Sinclair wants you to vote for the Ryan and McConnell crowd and their lackeys on the ballot with an “R” next to their name.

I’m still going to make up my own mind and vote write-in, third party or occasionally Republican when there’s a good candidate.


12 posted on 04/01/2018 8:31:23 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Da Coyote

Rush had that great “gravitas” montage. Must have been the 2000 election referring to Cheney as vp?


13 posted on 04/01/2018 8:56:11 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: joesbucks

Did you watch the clip? It shows that the news we consume is far from independent. Its largely a monolith. Is that pro conservative or pro liberal? Try making a judgement on your own instead of having to ask others to think for you.


14 posted on 04/01/2018 8:57:33 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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The fact that this is “news” to anyone shows how few have been paying attention.


15 posted on 04/01/2018 9:01:20 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: AndyJackson
The fact that all of those are Sinclair owned stations, it isn't surprising that their promos use the same script.

Generally speaking, Sinclair is a conservative company.

16 posted on 04/01/2018 9:07:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
If I'm not mistaken Sinclair owns KOMO, the Seattle ABC affiliate, and local staff have groused that they are forced to carry a two-minute conservative commentary by some guy named Boris. As far as I know, that mandatory opinion piece is Sinclair's only interference in local operations, so the rest of what KOMO does is strictly in conformance with local liberal expectations.

For example, when the House Republicans released their memo a few weeks ago, the KOMO story said nothing about its contents, but highlighted criticism of its release.
17 posted on 04/01/2018 9:55:49 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Yo-Yo

I think it would be the kind of conservative we see with the Bushes and the other barely-right-of-center politicians. It looks to me like an attempt to gather everyone toward the middle, but as another poster said, the phrase “our democracy” is a red flag.


18 posted on 04/01/2018 10:13:56 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: AndyJackson
Same topic different video poster. It was posted yesterday. 8>)
19 posted on 04/01/2018 10:19:04 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

What’s really interesting is that the line up YouTube proposes for you to watch after this is meant to drag you right back to watching liberal opinion.


20 posted on 04/01/2018 10:25:53 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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