Some of you may have seen the two different John Oliver pieces I linked a while back warning about Sinclair. They are now trying to purchase Tribune which would give them 70% of the local news agencies around the country. Whether you like it or not and whether you are in denial about it or not, the media is becoming more and more compromised even above and beyond the sensationalist profit engine that is status quo.

Here is a recent article from NBCNews.com

i like how this piece from NBC implies that the news isn't already propaganda

when conservatives play the same games libs do, lib tears result

john oliver's show is a good example, has he ever supported a conservative viewpoint?

John Oliver's show is political satire. You can't tell the difference between it and "news" after the confusion Faux and Sinclair sow.

Can you articulate which "conservative viewpoint" is served by media consolidation and explain why we should support it?

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as if the media isnt already consolidated and serves the liberal viewpoint

you guys wrote the playbook

what are you going to complain about next? too many conservatives in the university system?

 

 

Can you articulate which "conservative viewpoint" is served by media consolidation and explain why we should support it?

 

 

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Can you articulate which "liberal viewpoint" is served by past media consolidation and explain why we should support it?

it's an information war bro

Yeah, the kooks on the right have a war against facts.

I have never supported media consolidation.

You are supporting it in this thread.

Why?

You think Sinclair is a counterbalance to some liberal hegemon?

And that is a laudable goal?

Which singular liberal company owns 70% of local stations?

 

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yes they are a counterbalance

I don't see another way to fight back unfortunately, you have already ruined media through consolidation, it is too late

Johnny isn't interested in what's good for America, or for democracy; he's just a culture warrior sticking up for his tribe.

What he fails to realize is that the development of state media in the USA will ultimately hurt him too. Johnny's not a smart kid.



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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

To whom?

You who? Media consolidation started under a Reagan FCC in the name of deregulation.

Ajit Pai has put the hammer down in the race to remove any and all FCC controls on how much market share any one company can control.

Why would Sinclair be any more trustworthy to control 70% of local markets than any other single entity?

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green his show is satire true

but he runs real news too

it is clear on his show which is which

Scom, do you think the mainstream media (CNN, NBC, ABC, Hollywood (as in the "politcal satire shows", late night talk shows) MSNBC, etc) are not biased? It seems to be you scoff, distract, or offer "what abouts" every time that notion comes up. Why? Unless you don't think so?

(Honest question)

We already have state media, it constantly hates trump, speaking of defending the tribe

The state media is Faux News.

There is always some bias unless you watch foreign news where they don't give a shit; the problem is when it crosses over into propaganda.

Sinclair broadcasting sending out "must run" right wing messaging is propaganda; but fuck it, if Americans are that stupid they deserve the decline of the nation.



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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

John Oliver does some very very good pieces that are not satire that shed light on some pretty important issues AND he explains it in a way that most people can understand.

Liberals will try to tell you NBC is center. It isn't though, not even close.

Here ya go juanny, ossifer obie, and m.o.r. mookey. State sponsored media...

"Our policies are custom built for sinclair" says fcc commisioner
"And just last week, the FCC Inspector General's office opened up an investigation into the commission's moves and Chairman Pai's relationship with Sinclair. A New York Times investigation last summer found extensive meeting and correspondence between Pai and his staffers and Sinclair officials.

And who is Ajit Pai, anyway? As it happens you may have seen him in the news over the weekend. He attended the CPAC conference last week, and was given by the NRA something called the Charlton Heston Award for "courage under fire" for his anti-net neutrality stance.

Okay. First of all, what's a regulatory commissioner even doing at CPAC? It's one thing for someone like Pai to go to a Heritage Foundation conference and give a policy speech. That's a conservative gathering, but that's fine because it's a think tank. But CPAC? It's a hyper-partisan political event that this year happens to have featured an actual fascist. It's not the right place for an officially nonpartisan public servant. The two other Republican commissioners, Michael O'Reilly and Brendan Carr, also went.

An award from the NRA? The FCC commissioner? Once upon a time, this would have gotten an FCC chairman fired. Now it's apparently something to brag about. "Chairman Pai was asked to speak at CPAC and join a policy panel discussion with his fellow commissioners," says Pai spokesman Brian Hart

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It's a democratic hoax

nuke_C10H15N, why do you post the way you do? Are you incapable of anything else?