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Sinclair is supposed to be starting a new national cable news channel in the months to come.
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Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81
Sinclair Broadcast Group owns almost 200 TV stations across the U.S.; this is the company that requires its stations' local news operations to air mandated news scripts, video segments, and editorials. Ironically, Sinclair has criticized other news organizations for producing "fake" news.
In my town, that is as liberal and democratically oriented as any could be, this Sinclair plague has slipped in and owns two of the three news-producing TV stations here. The other is owned by Heartland Corp., another ultra-right outfit, with an agenda. If they can't control the voting in their favor, then they try to use their money to buy out the media in places like this.
It must be a bitter pill for many of the local news people to swallow. They've become trusted voices in our community and now, they have to betray us by parroting the lies that are mandated on them by the propaganda masters, or lose their jobs.
Not at all. There's a huge difference between ABC et al offering network-produced national news segments to their affiliates and Sinclair requiring the stations it owns to follow specific scripts and present specific on-screen commentary.
Thanks for playing. Better luck next time.
The primary difference clearly appears to be that ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS are pushing out leftist news and opinion through the local channels on a daily basis and Sinclair is pushing out rightist news and opinion.
At least I can see that objectively and assess it honestly and fairly. Why can't you?
I don't hardly watch any news except 15 minutes in the morning on CBS This Morning and really I only watch it to get the weather and traffic report before I leave for work...
I think people should stop consuming so much media.
I also think that the first bullet of the OP describe's PBS' "The News Hour."
Anime News Network bills itself as the Internet's most trusted anime news source. Outside of the columns (episode and product reviews, interviews, etc.), their news stories are mostly unbiased. They also link to their sources. Apply such a practice to a mainstream news source and I think many people could really trust a hypothetical new news channel.
It is moronic to expect one single news channel to be right about everything. It's not going to happen. All we can do is figure out who is right about what and listen accordingly.
Here is my advice:
When it comes to the economy, most msm outlets are pretty much on point, after all it's their interest the economy runs well, I suggest bloomberg, cnnmoney, and all big media.
When it comes to war and human rights, you are really hurting yourself to listen to big media. You need to listen to local news, they are talking about their communities and neighborhoods, so they have a genuine interest in the well being of people. At the international level independent journalists and most ngo's do good jobs in their reporting.
MSM media is not going to honestly defend workers rights, in fact they legitimize and cover criminal actions of the big player. Vice versa, local and independent news don't have the resources to give the true picture of everything about the economy.
We should listen to everyone openly, knowingly that there are many "credible" sources that don't know what they're talking about.
PBS news product is leftist. Case closed. Don't embarrass yourself by trying to deny it.
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