Should Sinclair media lose all media licensing for this?

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Complaints about all of the conglomerates has been going on for quite a while even. This article goes back to 2014.

Ever Wonder Why Your Local TV News Stations Run the Same Damn Stories? – Mother Jones

Good write up from fair.org on NYT abusing anonymous sources all the way back to 2016. So why the hell is everbody cross linking them then?!

Journalism’s Dark Matter | FAIR

And while fair.org leans left they get high marks for factual reporting. God I would hope so based on their mission statement but who knows anymore!

Daily Source Bias Check: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - Media Bias/Fact Check
 
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lawgator1 said:
I am dismayed that there is not universal disgust on the board at this action by Sinclair.
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Spare me. When MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS all managed to find the same two or three adjectives for Trump’s convention speech, did you think that was a reflection of their limited vocabulary or something else? Do you find it odd that mainstream media cover basically the same exact things the same way? There is still a market component to the media, if people don’t like what they’re hearing or don’t trust it they’ll tune in to something else. The Sinclair station here at least attempts to cover some national news, I’d rather see that than when the NBC affiliate sent some goober to walk around the shifty parts of town pointing out shifty things.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Sinclair tells stations to air media-bashing promos - and the criticism goes viral - Apr. 1, 2018

I've seen a mash up of this. Like 20 stations reading the EXACT same script, word for word, echoing the "fake media" narrative. It is beyond alarming. It is fascist.

Congress needs to hold hearings, at a minimum. I can't believe conservatives would even stand for this.
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Pew Study: News Coverage Of Trump More Negative Than For Other Presidents : NPR

Study: 91 percent of recent network Trump coverage has been negative - The Washington Post

Media bias continues: 90% of Trump coverage in last three months has been negative: Study - Washington Times

Pew: Trump media three times more negative than for Obama, just 5 percent positive

Where's your propaganda outrage over these?
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Am I missing something? What is bad about this?
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There's nothing bad about a broadcast network owner directing the stations to read and follow up on the copy given in a post above. They want to lean conservative, so what? It's their right. If the majority owners wanted to convert over to compete with Pat Robertson and the Christian Broadcasting Network that's their right. Would some local station employees grumble? Yeah buddy, but it's the owners way or the highway.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Spare me. When MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS all managed to find the same two or three adjectives for Trump’s convention speech, did you think that was a reflection of their limited vocabulary or something else? Do you find it odd that mainstream media cover basically the same exact things the same way? There is still a market component to the media, if people don’t like what they’re hearing or don’t trust it they’ll tune in to something else. The Sinclair station here at least attempts to cover some national news, I’d rather see that than when the NBC affiliate sent some goober to walk around the shifty parts of town pointing out shifty things.
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I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad sign when somebody says "Sinclair station", and I immediately think of a place with gas pumps and a sign with a green dinosaur out front.
 
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Orangedogsrule said:
There's nothing bad about a broadcast network owner directing the stations to read and follow up on the copy given in a post above. They want to lean conservative, so what? It's their right. If the majority owners wanted to convert over to compete with Pat Robertson and the Christian Broadcasting Network that's their right. Would some local station employees grumble? Yeah buddy, but it's the owners way or the highway.
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Pretty much. If they own the stations, they are free to do this. Some employees may not like it, but you can't tell me that any network, station, or paper doesn't have owners who are driving an agenda. The days of an independent, impartial press are gone...if they ever existed at all.
 
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tRump is dumb, dangerous and a threat to democracy. Constantly attacking the media as fake news. The news is only as fake as the ones making the news. Playing videos of people telling lies isn't fake. You people will defend anything. :crazy:
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Am I missing something? What is bad about this?
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Trump derangement. All they know is their belief that Sinclair is pro-trump. It’s like they didn’t even listen to what was said - which I would think is the least controversial thing you could say to the left - that there is fake news on social media. Isn’t that why Hillary was denied the presidency?
 
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orangeluvr said:
tRump is dumb, dangerous and a threat to democracy. Constantly attacking the media as fake news. The news is only as fake as the ones making the news. Playing videos of people telling lies isn't fake. You people will defend anything. :crazy:
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Crybaby.
 
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orangeluvr said:
tRump is dumb, dangerous and a threat to democracy. Constantly attacking the media as fake news. The news is only as fake as the ones making the news. Playing videos of people telling lies isn't fake. You people will defend anything. :crazy:
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If Trump is truly a threat to our democracy why is the left insistent on disarming the populace?
 
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orangeluvr said:
:popcorn: ::whistling:

Well they've done a bad job of that, 375M guns and counting! The g o p has demagogued the issue for years.
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Aren’t you relieved they have? Now you have the means to defend yourself from Trump’s death squads when he declares himself dictator for life.
 
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An edict of "must run, word for word commentary" by a station owner across all affiliates is something you would expect to see of state run media. This shouldn't happen in the United States. Viewers should feel their intelligence has been offended by such an obvious attempt at manipulation. However, whatever the station owner was trying to accomplish has fallen flat. It was too carefully scripted and transparent of an agenda.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
An edict of "must run, word for word commentary" by a station owner across all affiliates is something you would expect to see of state run media. This shouldn't happen in the United States. Viewers should feel their intelligence has been offended by such an obvious attempt at manipulation. However, whatever the station owner was trying to accomplish has fallen flat. It was too carefully scripted and transparent of an agenda.
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Have you ever asked yourself how all of the MSM outlets end up using the same buzzwords and themes in their "reporting"?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
An edict of "must run, word for word commentary" by a station owner across all affiliates is something you would expect to see of state run media. This shouldn't happen in the United States. Viewers should feel their intelligence has been offended by such an obvious attempt at manipulation. However, whatever the station owner was trying to accomplish has fallen flat. It was too carefully scripted and transparent of an agenda.
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Do you recall the "Journ-O-List" story from several years ago?
 
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hog88 said:
Have you ever asked yourself how all of the MSM outlets end up using the same buzzwords and themes in their "reporting"?
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Sure... and quite honestly using the same buzzwords and themes is a lot smarter and much less obvious than reading a paragraph-long script word for word across dozens of affiliates nationwide. What Sinclair did was too easy to detect and actually really dumb.
 
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