Pic Of The Moment: No Need For Russia & China To Mislead America With Propaganda...

[EarlG]

Sinclair's recipe for TV news: Crime, homelessness, illegal drugs

Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. -- even if Americans don't believe it

[republianmushroom]

1. Yup, nailed it.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[TwilightZone]

3. Agreed. We give too much credit to China/Russia for the spread of propaganda in the US.

And not enough blame on the Republican media machine. China and Russia only amplify what was already widespread.

[Fritz Walter]

4. Found a list of stations

...on Wikipedia, rather than their own website: list is organized by state and then city.

The following is a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair owns or operates 294 television stations across the United States in 89 markets ranging in size from as large as Washington, D.C. to as small as Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri. Several of these stations are owned by affiliate companies with varying ties to Sinclair—including Cunningham Broadcasting, Deerfield Media, and Howard Stirk Holdings—and operated by Sinclair using local marketing agreements.

Boycott to your heart's content!

[erronis]

10. Thanks for that list. We have one local station that is very RW but privately owned.

I think there's probably a deeper network of connections between the purveyors of lies than just public corporate ownership.

[KS Toronado]

23. Thanks for the list

With all the ABC/CBS/NBC stations he owns, where is all this Liberal media repugs are always referring to?

[louis-t]

26. Even Newt Gingrich admitted that was a lie.

Many years ago.

[louis-t]

28. Wow, only 1 station in MI and it's Marquette.

A looooong way from where I live.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Control the media, creation of laws, execution of laws, and interpretation of laws.

This is the stealth takeover envisioned by James Buchanan and being executed by Koch, Murdoch, Sinclair, Mercer, et. al., aided by the Reaganites and the Newt. The symbiotic relationship between billionaires hostile to democracy and the Republican party has been ongoing for nearly half a century.

[niyad]

6. KNR

[Kid Berwyn]

7. The Rotter

[Codifer]

20. I am probably wrong,

but, to me this looks like hitler's hairline and stash scribbled with a sharpie on nixon's head.

I dunno

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Exactly right about who.

Antiwar protesters made a poster from the quote in the late 60s or early 70s. The words appeared almost poetic in small font on a glossy red field. Back in the day, the campuses were lit with protest. I remember reading it and wondering who said it, Nixon or Agnew? At the end it was attributed to the Austrian. Under his name, an upside down American flag.

As for the how, I defer to Sharpie experts.

[rainy]

24. I think you're right!!!

[et tu]

31. my first impression 2 nt

[lonely bird]

8. Ah, another mediocre old white man

Speaking as an old white man, please save us from mediocre old white men.

[Tickle]

27. Are we looking for a mediocre

Black man speaking as an old black man? I don't understand your color theory.

[Aussie105]

29. Don't get what?

That old white men in power have a common theme, ie . . .

"I don't like the shape of the world around me, it is an unsafe place to be, it scares me, follow me and I will reshape it into my image of a Brand New Safe World!
First, I must frighten you. Then I must get you to follow me. Then I can take away your ability to think and decide independently."

Common theme for the following:

Hitler.
Trump.
Putin.
Murdoch.
Sinclair.

Not an exhaustive list, by any means.

[et tu]

32. crowe, koch et al nt

[lonely bird]

41. There actually isn't one

That being said mediocre white men have had far too much say and power for far too long.

[happy feet]

9. Exactly

I wish I could rec this 1M+

[Initech]

11. And people wonder why I don't watch network news anymore.

Fuck Sinclair!

[SouthBayDem]

12. Same shit in the '80s and '90s over stranger danger and such.

From a 1994 academic essay:

Nowhere is the declining quality of television news more in evidence than in the way it handles one of the most important stories in the United States today: the scourge of violent crime. A well-known case in point is WSVN, Fox affiliate Channel 7 in Miami, Florida, cited Jan. 26 [1994] as a bad example of local TV crime coverage by NBC's NOW with Katie Couric and Tom Brokaw — and they ought to know. According to that report, WSVN distorts the truth about the homicide rate in Miami and practices "body bag journalism" in order to titillate viewers. Its anchorman [Rick] Sanchez is notorious for his headshaking delivery and horrified facial expressions. While the murder rate in Miami actually declined from 637 dead in 1981 to 401 dead in 1993, WSVN bemoans the rise of slayings in Miami and sprinkles the adjectives "gruesome" and "bizarre" liberally throughout every telecast, apparently to hype their stories and make them sound more urgent and important. On June 3, The New York Times reported that nine South Florida hotels had begun blacking out WSVN's news shows because of what one hotelier called the station's "pattern of continuous sensationalism".

Yep, that's the same Rick Sanchez who went on to CNN.

[byronius]

13. False reporting should be a crime.

I know that's not possible — but I’m reminded of Hitler’s early purchase of a small Berlin newspaper, and it’s enormous impact on his climb to power.

[jayschool2013]

14. David Smith just bought the Baltimore Sun

He's moving his BS to more and different types of platforms.

If you want to support his competitor, the online-only Baltimore Banner is closing in on its second anniversary, and they've already made a dent in the Sun's subscriptions.

They work with WYPR, the local NPR station in Baltimore.

[dlk]

15. Unfortunately true

It's shocking to see how many have fallen into Russia's and China's traps.

[Kablooie]

16. So many in the country live inside a propaganda bubble.

They never hear about what's really happening in the world.
All they know is terrifying propaganda designed to insulate them from reality and keep them glued to propaganda media.

This is the Fox News formula for success that is being mimicked by most local radio stations.
It's probably the primary reason Trump has so many followers.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Yup

We all have wondered for years, are these people brainwashed.???? How could that have happened????????

A large segment of psychiatrists came to the conclusion, that if all a person listened to was RW Radio and watched Fox News all the time, that that was basically molding them, and in fact brainwashing them.......

Not a lot different than countries that use mass "indocutrination" camps for their dissenters......

[Marthe48]

17. sinclair bought the local station a few

Years ago. We stopped watching.
I tried to do a search at the time about who actually owned the station and it was so snatled, I gave up.

[dobleremolque]

18. We need to return to the time when

you could only own a total of six media outlets and couldn't own more than 1 in any Designated Market Area (DMA). Oh, and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.

[calimary]

43. I wish!

It was like that when I started working. Alas, it didn’t last long before the greed-and-domination fest took over.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Clever. Even if you never watch the Fox Snooze channel you get fed propaganda

from your local news sources. You are more likely to trust the "hometown" people -- they wouldn't lie to you, would they?

Chip-chip-chip. The thing conservatives most fear and want to kill is an informed electorate. They do that by owning the local media and tell them what to cover and what not to cover. They do that by owning congressmen, and state legislators (cheap!), and even school boards (cheaper). They tell local news what to cover, and how to cover it. The Daily Show did a bit on this exact thing, showing how stations duplicate their approach to the same subject -- sometimes even using the same words.

You do it by normalizing Trump, and keep emphasizing Biden's age. Have you noticed how often Biden's age is the subject of a story, or at least referred to tangentially? He was been cleared of all wrongdoing on the classified records issue, but the thing people are talking about is the reference that he's a sweet old grandfather who forgets everything. Even saying it's not true is keeping the issue alive.

Meanwhile Trump is ignored, unless he says something so outrageous it breaks through his usual list of grievances. He didn't make up, "If they don't pay what they owe NATO, then KICK THEM OUT. (You're Fired!!!) Putin can attack NATO countries whenever he wants, and I won't lift a finger. In fact, I encourage him to attack." He's a strong leader, just like me."

BTW, who gets to determine what a country owes in dues, and whether they had paid them?, .T***p does. It will be Stop the Steal on steroids!

Meanwhile the MSM focuses on Biden's age, and the word "fascism" has been banned.

[kimbutgar]

21. That company should have not be allowed to buy some many stations kind of monopolistic to me!

I live in California and noticed the stations Sinclair owns in the state are really red areas of my state.

[Mr.Bee]

22. Sinclair Operates Nine Channels

in my area, and every commercial break it's the same commercials on an endless loop sometimes the same prescription drug and MedicareAdvantage ones two or three times in a row, I can practically quote by heart!
We used to have two good retreats from horrendous NBC/ABC/CBS commercial shows, METV and MOVIES!, but Sinclair decided they no longer wanted to pay for it, so away they went, and we're stuck with their crappy programming of old shows, CSIs, Buffy, Law and Order, they play year after year, until you just can't watch it anymore.
Movies? Weekends it's the same movies over and over, death and destruction, zombies, sharks and monsters... Programming with no imagination, no new shows, just the SOS day after day.
I forgot to mention I'm a cord cutter, I refuse to pay to watch TV!
Last resort? PBS!

[Wonder Why]

25. If you go to news.google.com to read the news of multiple sites, most of what you see are drunk driving deaths and local

shootouts. They make me angry until I realize these have always been occurrences reported only by the local papers and TV outlets but now given national attention by Google's selections of important news in the country.

If all you did was to peruse Google news, you would think this country's people are all dead already and you and your family are next. And, worse, the national media that picks up this stuff always gets things wrong. e.g., that recent story of the pregnant stingray occurred, not in Henderson, NC as reported by many media sites but in Hendersonville, NC, over 4 driving hours and 284 miles away.

[Aussie105]

30. The media has an incentive to scare you.

And they have a long list of 'trigger words' they use in a cyclic manner.

You know what they are, you soak them up all day long.

It keeps you worried (paranoid?), keeps you glued to the TV/newspaper/ radio, keeps your eyeballs on the advertising.

I always watch the news and ask . . . why use those words, why that phraseology, what motivates you in presenting that information that way?

Words and phrases are important in shaping your response to infomation.
After all, one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist, one person's refugee stream is another person's foreign invasion.

[IcyPeas]

33. John Oliver has done some Sinclair segments

[Uncle Joe]

34. He's an oligarch, just like *rump

Thanks for the thread EarlG

[dalton99a]

37. Kick

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/david-d-dennison-smith-sinclair-ceo-chairman/
David D. Smith: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

[BumRushDaShow]

38. I had read something about this over the weekend

and first thing I thought of was the whole OTT stuff about the economy. And this is not to say that greedflation isn't out there but the fundamentals of the economy with the 3 years of "negative push narratives" insisting that a recession was imminent, was nonstop until recently. It's only been in the past couple weeks when I started seeing a few articles questioning that "recession" reporting. And I would add that even DU would throw out some memes along the lines of - "The unemployment rate is the lowest in decades but this is why Biden and Democrats should worry".

They know many in the media operate with a herd mentality so all it takes are a couple RW sources to plant a narrative and the rest of them jump on board and run with it. The obsessive Taylor Swift reporting is the perfect example.

My mother (and her generation) used to call it "yellow journalism".

[dchill]

39. BAHA

Bogus Assholes Hurting America.

[CarolinaNC]

40. I believe middle school weapons are up but what do I know?

[PatrickforB]

42. SBGI is currently trading on the NASDAQ exchange at $15.48 per share. What this means is

that Sinclair Media executives have only ONE fiduciary responsiblity - to generate shareholder profits. That's it.

They have no obligation to treat their workers well, or give consumers of their media product truth.

Nope.

All they are required to do is generate shareholder profits.

This is why the legal doctrine of shareholder primacy should be overturned in favor of a stakeholder approach to corporate governance, which would require officers in publicly traded companies to hold worker interests (safety, good working conditions, living wages, decent benefits, life/work balance), consumer interests (including TRUTH in media news reporting), and the environment as having equal weight with shareholder profits.

If this one little tiny change were implemented, and it was ENFORCED, we would solve a lot of seemingly intractable problems quickly.

Just a thought to any policymakers reading this post...