This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

[rothschild]

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

[Duchess]

I've heard of this happening. I wish I could recall the family name it was associated with, they own several media outlets. It's not the Murdochs.

[MirahM]

A quick search brought up these names
Bloomberg, Hearst, Newhouse, Murdoch, and Ochs-Sulzberger

[Carsman]

There should (must) be serious legal repercussions for those who tout fake news! 

[Rootilda2]

I've heard of this happening. I wish I could recall the family name it was associated with, they own several media outlets. It's not the Murdochs.

Sinclair Broadcast Group?

[Duchess]

Yes! That's the one. All their media outlets were, and maybe still are, parroting each other word for word.

[rothschild]

Sinclair doesn't own ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox. ABC is Disney, CBS is Viacom, NBC is/was General Electric. All of them broadcasting the same message word for word.

[Duchess]

All I was saying was that I've seen that done before and Sinclair was the company doing it. I wasn't arguing that the outlets you accused weren't doing it. I was only addressing what I saw for myself.

[Donovan]

It's not the Networks that are behind the parroting shown above, it's companies like Sinclair, as Duchess said, buying local stations and forcing their existing local news teams to add "scripted content" at peril for their jobs. Happened here to a long-respected station affiliated with ABC, in fact you can see them square in the center of rothchild's youtube thumbnail. The male anchor talked about it at length and basically said all the news employees were forced to comply or instantly be terminated. Demands included reading the prepackaged content as pictured, forced inclusion of a several minute "opinion" segment by some douchebag whose name I've forgotten. For the record, the video evidence shared above is pretty old, from 2017 or so, and many of the reporters and anchors have since quit or been fired or retired due to these conditions. Worse, local print news has all but been dismantled and replaced by lazier, cheaper "news" sources like Twitter, which was in turn purchased and destroyed by a wealthy autocrat. Starting to see the pattern here?

[Duchess]

It's not the Networks that are behind the parroting shown above, it's companies like Sinclair, as Duchess said, buying local stations and forcing their existing local news teams to add "scripted content" at peril for their jobs. Happened here to a long-respected station affiliated with ABC, in fact you can see them square in the center of rothchild's youtube thumbnail. The male anchor talked about it at length and basically said all the news employees were forced to comply or instantly be terminated. Demands included reading the prepackaged content as pictured, forced inclusion of a several minute "opinion" segment by some douchebag whose name I've forgotten. For the record, the video evidence shared above is pretty old, from 2017 or so, and many of the reporters and anchors have since quit or been fired or retired due to these conditions. Worse, local print news has all but been dismantled and replaced by lazier, cheaper "news" sources like Twitter, which was in turn purchased and destroyed by a wealthy autocrat. Starting to see the pattern here?

I am so happy to see you! I've missed you much!   

Got snow? Heh.

[rothschild]

It's not the Networks that are behind the parroting shown above, it's companies like Sinclair, as Duchess said, buying local stations and forcing their existing local news teams to add "scripted content" at peril for their jobs. Happened here to a long-respected station affiliated with ABC, in fact you can see them square in the center of rothchild's youtube thumbnail. The male anchor talked about it at length and basically said all the news employees were forced to comply or instantly be terminated. Demands included reading the prepackaged content as pictured, forced inclusion of a several minute "opinion" segment by some douchebag whose name I've forgotten. For the record, the video evidence shared above is pretty old, from 2017 or so, and many of the reporters and anchors have since quit or been fired or retired due to these conditions. Worse, local print news has all but been dismantled and replaced by lazier, cheaper "news" sources like Twitter, which was in turn purchased and destroyed by a wealthy autocrat. Starting to see the pattern here?

How much leeway do local affiliates have re the content that's broadcast? Do you really blame this exclusively on Sinclair? How much sense does that make when politicians and presidential appointees espouse the exact same message? Have you heard of Nina Jankowicz, the now retired truth czar? Is she a Sinclair board member?

The pattern I see is one that transcends the left/right political dichotomy.