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Sinclair Broadcast Group - Mass Propaganda (1 Viewer)
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Ilov80s
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Sheriff Bart
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St. Louis Commentator Loses TV and Radio Shows After Threatening David Hogg
The system works!
Sometimes.
Ilov80s
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Threatening someone with a hot poker should be automatic termination in almost every profession.
Dedfin
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Sheriff Bart
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Mario Kart
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Ilov80s
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They are trying to buy 235 more stations. We really need limits on the size of these media outlets. We have this, the Comcast merger and the ATT merger. It is all really bad news.
Mario Kart
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urbanhack
Fight The Power!
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
BigSteelThrill
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They only thing bad is the straight propaganda that Sinclair is pushing.
It's no wonder Rove! is for it.
It's no wonder Rove! is for it.
Insomniac
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The problem isn't the company, it's the audience that wants "news" coverage exactly like this. Of course, that doesn't mean your description of the company is at all wrong.
Ilov80s
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....And of course it has nothing to do with the one-sided coverage from the mainstream media.
Insomniac
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A classic example of whataboutism. Do you have any recent examples of some left wing news story from the mainstream media that's the equivalent of being in favor of teargassing toddlers?
If Sinclair is giving you what you want feel free to keep watching. I just hope the next time I turn on MSNBC or CNN I don't see Cory Lewandowski again
No, not at all. You put the blame entirely on the audience, which is ridiculous. Disagreeing with your reasoning is not even remotely an example of whataboutism. The reason for conservative media to flourish is because of the utter lack of balance that is provided by the traditional media. I don't watch or read conservative media and I avoid MSNBC. But I am not opposed to the freedom of the press either. All sources of information has their value, but you need to understand their biases and reliability.
Ilov80s
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cosjobs
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@WeAreSinclair
We'd like to take a moment and address some concerns regarding a commentary segment by @borisep that was aired on Sinclair stations this week. The opinions expressed in this segment do not reflect the views of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
4:04 PM - 28 Nov 2018
@ndrew_lawrence
More Andrew Lawrence Retweeted Sinclair Broadcast Group
Wow looks like @WeAreSinclair was caught totally off guard by the pre-taped, scripted segment they force all of their stations to run
We'd like to take a moment and address some concerns regarding a commentary segment by @borisep that was aired on Sinclair stations this week. The opinions expressed in this segment do not reflect the views of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
4:04 PM - 28 Nov 2018
@ndrew_lawrence
More Andrew Lawrence Retweeted Sinclair Broadcast Group
Wow looks like @WeAreSinclair was caught totally off guard by the pre-taped, scripted segment they force all of their stations to run
Dickies
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Why is all the news coverage on the smoke billowing out of the burning building? Why can't any news organizations do stories on buildings that aren't on fire or show us shots of clean skies?
Dickies
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[scooter]
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When will conservatives learn not to blindly defend something before the talking points get released?
Sinclair employee: Tear gas is great!
Rest of world: What an awful thing to say.
Conservative defendobot: BUT WHAT ABOUT LIBERALS?!? WE MUST DEFEND BORIS TO THE END!
Sinclair: Actually that was a pretty awful thing to say.
Started around Vietnam War and by the time Reagan became President it was pretty much full tilt.
squistion
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It never did. It just started reporting things accurately.
The truth has a known liberal bias.
Leroy Hoard
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Very true. Despite their insistence of it, there's still a slight bit of embarrassment about being greedy and/or selfish and/or racist. So policies and maneuvering that display those things tend to be done a bit backhandedly. People who are giving and want equal rights and don't discriminate have nothing to hide. So it gets spoken about truthfully and proudly.
BigSteelThrill
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Facts are liberal.Ilov80s said:
Mario Kart
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McBokonon
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mcintyre1
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Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci
No shock here, it's Sinclair.
No shock here, it's Sinclair.
ren hoek
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CNN spent 2/3 years pushing the "collusion" conspiracy theory, an asinine falsehood that completely fell apart, and we're all supposed to forget it happened and move on. Not saying they're wrong about the Plandemic stuff but it's annoying that they still think they get to play gatekeeper with "conspiracy theories".
mcintyre1
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I wish there was an "eyeroll" reaction. Come on, Ren. -- to expand on that thought -- how is that your primary takeaway from an article about a propaganda like network of local TV stations running with a story about the coronavirus being created by Dr. Fauci in a lab?
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ren hoek
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Like I said I wasn't commenting on the substance of the article. I was commenting on CNN and specifically Darcy's credibility. This Oliver Darcy guy fed people TrumpRussia conspiracy chum for years, they basically dedicated their entire news room to a falsehood, and never owned up to any of it. They made a bunch of money off feeding people craven lies that did tremendous damage to this country. Now they bash other people for spreading conspiracy theories. It's absurd.
rcam
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Wait.. what? It is one thing to claim that what the Trump campaign did didn't rise to some level of legal conspiracy. It is another thing to claim it was just all made up nonsense. I mean, one question, what was the infamous Trump tower meeting supposed to be about?
ren hoek
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Looks like it was about the Magnitsky Act and Bill Browder. This one fell apart too, only years after the fact with hardly any news coverage:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/05/10/transcript-of-the-russian-behind-the-dreaded-trump-tower-meeting-revealed/#56b842711507
The meeting, organized by a wacky music publicist named Rob Goldstone, involved lying about what they had to offer and ended in failure.
The most impactful stories that advanced the narrative were literally paid for by Clinton/DNC- the Steele dossier, and Crowdstrike's report. CS falsely accused Russia of hacking Ukrainian artillery systems in the past.
The most central allegation to the entire case, that Russia hacked the DNC, was based on Crowdstrike's estimates. Shawn Henry testified in 2017 that they couldn't prove the data was actually "exfiltrated" or "left" the DNC servers, only that they had "circumstantial" "indicators" suggesting it was. This testimony only came out years after the fact, again with hardly a blip from the news cycle. To this day the technical evidence has never been released for independent verification.
The case is incredibly thin on both the hacking & collusion front, it should have been discarded years ago.
Snorkelson
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MR. SCHIFF: The only connection between any of this and adoptions is that after the Congress passed the Magnitsky Act, Putin retaliated by cutting off the adoptions by Americans of Russian children, correct?
MR. AKHMETSHIN: Correct. It was cowardly act. I personally find it disgusting.
MR. SCHIFF: And so, when you say you're working to facilitate the reinstatement of American adoptions, it's really working to repeal the Magnitsky Act, is it not?
MR. AKHMETSHIN: No, sir.
I don’t see how this isn’t the case. I guess I’ll have to find the transcript and read it myself without the interjections of what I’m supposed to think of the information. Have a hard time with this article, they don’t even get the name of browders book right. They call it “red dawn”, the book is titled “red notice.” I was hoping for something better, you keep saying how absolutely ridiculously false all this is but I’m not coming to the same conclusions reading your arguments and your links.
sho nuff
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Ive pointed out exactly what Henry said when you tried that the last time. When you posted a couple clips of what he said...and then the whole testimony showed the context and all of it to be a bit different. That you continue to deny russian involvement is almost odd at this point.
In addition...yes...what they had to offer was less than they had...but why was the meeting happening and the offer was actually made...correct? And Trump officials took the meeting thinking they were getting something better than what they were offered...correct? And lied about the meeting multiple times...correct? Yeah...it didn't fall apart, the excuses made by Trump fell apart.
rcam
Footballguy
I didn't know if ren missed the point of my question or was being disingenuous - it appears he is being disingenuous.
[scooter]
Footballguy
He's posting stuff about CNN and Russia in a thread about the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
It's not so much "disingenuous" as it's "deflection" and "distraction".
ren hoek
Footballguy
I don't understand what part of your post you think I didn't respond to. Maybe you think it's an outlandish view but I actually believe the whole thing was fabricated out of thin air, not unlike WMDs in Iraq. The Trump Tower meeting was uneventful when you look closely at it. This may strike some as earthshattering news, but political campaigns do seek damaging information on their political opponents. There was nothing illegal about the meeting.
I think Wikileaks could have provided useful information about the sourcing and prove it wasn't derived from Russian nationals, as they've claimed all along from the very beginning, had anyone from the FBI bothered to ask them about it..
sho nuff
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How could they? Assange had previously claimed wiki was set up so they wouldn't know a source?
Snorkelson
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“I love it, especially if it’s later in the summer.”
Meets, discusses magnisky act.
Damaging information disseminated later in the summer
We’ll see what happens with Magnisky.
There’s a lot of other evidence in my opinion that they knew, coordinated the release, and accepted the help freely, but I won’t argue those points. This is the bare bones issue for me, where it will erase all doubt. The Magnisky act, theoretically, can only be changed by Congress, but the Trump administration has shown that they will find a workaround and exploit it to get what they want, or at least try. Settling the prevezon case for peanuts and firing preet bahrarah(sic) in the beginning of the administration already kind of looks bad imo.
