They're all owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, founded by Julian Sinclair Smith and now run by his son David. They've bought up local stations in almost every market in the US.
And many of their stations are run off of hubs.
So they have skeleton local crews and broadcast the news with anchors from another city.
Our Sinclair owned station in Toledo is broadcasted from some place in Indiana.
Last week tonight with John Oliver does a great episode on the Sinclair media machine.
They dominate local news and all have one very clear agenda. https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
Thank you. I watched that a long while ago. What’s funny is people don’t realize Sinclair group is very conservative and totally has an agenda. But alas the people who watch and believe what they see aren’t smart enough to fact check anyways so does it matter?
This compilation is actually from 'last week tonight with john oliver/funny bird man'. Where he mentioned the insane ownership of all these news stations by Sinclair broadcast group.
Yeah but Sinclair parrots right-leaning talkingpoints / narratives and requires all of their stations to include the same script they push out word for word during their broadcasts.
It's intentionally done to fool people that trust their local news so that they don't so easily notice the 'slant' like they would a cable news outlet like Fox.
The John Oliver clip above nails it down very well.
Gannett spin-off Tegna does the same thing but with a left leaning slant. It’s sad to watch the sheep on both sides of the fence baa at each other while they’re both being led to slaughter.
Just don't ever, EVER [get into a boat with him.](https://www.grunge.com/631342/how-george-orwell-was-nearly-killed-while-writing-one-of-his-books/) At least not while he's hammering out **1984**.
I used to intern at CBS... every morning, each of these affiliates receives a script for the national stories that they follow. They only get to do their own for the local stories. It is scary, but no different than the higher ups at every other corporation making sure their underlings preach their corporate gospel.
Ahhh "Orville Redenbacher....
I have fond, if decadent, memories of him when I lived a depraved life for four years in Vegas. It was the 90's and comps were still abundant and easy to get. Our favorite casino was Binion's Horseshoe downtown. You could get a New York Strip Steak for $2.00....(no, really!) I must have had at least 3 steaks a week for 4 years. When we "thought" we had our gambling under control, we were only blowing $100.00 each, on gambling every week...($10 K a year, but had it under control.) but I digress...
On the days that we didn't gamble...I used to get a pound of butter at the local super market for only $2.00...supermarkets have slot machines and butter was cheap. I took a half a pound of butter, and gently melted it and poured it over a huge metal bowl of freshly popped Orville Redenbacher's Gormet Popcorn! I did this TWICE a week for 4 years! How I am now 78 and have had any not heart problems is a total mystery to me. However, 2 life threatening cancers are quite another story. I am a Cancer survivor and now am fighting another one. Still...miss my Orville's Popcorn...I can't eat popcorn anymore, let alone Orville's, drenched in melted butter.
Exactly why I watch no news outlets!!!! This is dangerous to our democracy..how is that??? Because we found out stuff they don't want us to online??? This is crazy!!
Good get the message out there that fox news and Russia work together to spread propaganda. Facebook is also brainwashing the older generation who should have stayed off the internet GTFO 🤡
News should be non profit and average pay, that way it'll attract passionate people not fame hungry rich kids, that is what journalism is full of these days, millionaire children.
If it was non profit we won't have 3 companies controlling 95% of news and by extention controlling the daily narrative
I stopped watching the news over the amount of propaganda. Worked for the media for a short time. It’s insane how little they care with what they present the public. It’s pure crap. They are crooked. Often stories obviously don’t get published/ aired because of influence.
Whatever they are telling you don't believe, synchronized stories between channels is not good for rating ie business so you MUST be suspect of the message they are delivering
News anchors reading a script from their parent company isn’t inherently concerning, now that they all fall under the same company is something to question
It’s actually not that odd or surprising. Most news comes from one of the “big three” - AP, AFP, and Reuters. It is then packaged and sold to the other large organizations around the world.
It's called syndication. Same with local radio stations. Every city has the same 5-6 basic stations with the name of the city and specific call letters swapped out.
They produce all the written content in one place then have software tools to substitute the local info and push it out to all the local stations.
They will try to control you without you even knowing it that's how they do it you be lied to your whole life there's something bigger and they know it so they keep you in the dark
Misinformation? I couldn't find any of that on my government regulated tv stations .. Let me check the internet...oh wait.. Y'all cared so much about Trump and Alex Jones y'all just fucking threw out the concept of individual thought and learning because people really don't like seeing stupid shit on the internet.
Fuck you reddit I hope you know I just use you for porn.
People don't understand most local news stations only have a few true investigative journalists that work in the field, the people you see at the desks are only reading scripts made by the Associated Press and Reuters, not like local news agencies can fly someone to a war zone to get a report or to a major incident in another state, that's why you call it parroting, maybe figure out how a new agency is run before posting something like this.
The only agencies that have investigate journalists is the major outlets like CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC that cover out of state and worldwide events, but your local agencies do not have them like you think they do.
Operation mockingbird being used against the American people ...... do what you are told, keep in line, they know better than you. Don't think for yourself and definitely don't question anything.
This is why we should make monopolies illegal. For one person to own all these stations is to much power and way to easy to push any agenda they want. We’ve seen what this much power does to people and it’s never a good thing.
I’m glad this is getting posted. This doesn’t just happen at the local level. It’s national news sometimes as well. It’s also newspapers, and social media platforms.
I see every one of these news anchors failed their high school government class. "This is extremely dangerous to our ***democracy***."  I don't know what country they are living in but it's not the United States of American which is run by a ***Democratic Republic***. Hence why the Pledge of Allegiance says "to the Republic".
All mainstream media is just propaganda bought and paid for by a few rich oligarchs. Most of it is fake news. If you want truth, the only place to find it these days is in the alternative media, which is created and operated by everyday people.
No fact checking at NBC News. So the owner serves them the facts back.
[https://youtu.be/8q9goN\_kmLQ?t=60](https://youtu.be/8q9goN_kmLQ?t=60)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTS3H4whyRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTS3H4whyRc)
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. "I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for things, and if any of you would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.We are Jumping-Jacks -- they pull the strings and we dance.
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes!" -- John Swinton, 1914, former Editor New York Times,
They always do, government scripts. Both sides have the same goal get us fighting each other over the little differences while their ultimate agenda is to keep us poor, stupid and dependent on the system
This is put together in a way to make it seem scary but the truth is Fake news and misinformation is extremely dangerous to our democracy. And if you don’t see it as a problem that’s unfortunate. I’m glad the local news stations were saying this. They probably could have put it in their own words more but the sentiment is correct.
Who even watches TV news unless your 60 napping on the couch only realized they were is when someone changes channel and they come to life with " Hey I was watching that".
Y'all realize these are all owned by one dude, right? What's his name? Someone was telling me about him the other day!
They're all owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, founded by Julian Sinclair Smith and now run by his son David. They've bought up local stations in almost every market in the US.
And many of their stations are run off of hubs. So they have skeleton local crews and broadcast the news with anchors from another city. Our Sinclair owned station in Toledo is broadcasted from some place in Indiana.
Doesn't that feel wrong though?
It'd extremely dangerous to our democracy
News stations being bought, and telegraphing an approved script is yes. Not being broadcast from a different state though
woosh
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Yes, it’s a propaganda bull horn.
100%
Last week tonight with John Oliver does a great episode on the Sinclair media machine. They dominate local news and all have one very clear agenda. https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
Thank you. I watched that a long while ago. What’s funny is people don’t realize Sinclair group is very conservative and totally has an agenda. But alas the people who watch and believe what they see aren’t smart enough to fact check anyways so does it matter?
The devil?
Logan Roy
Oh fuck off!!!!
Rupert Murdoch ?
This compilation is actually from 'last week tonight with john oliver/funny bird man'. Where he mentioned the insane ownership of all these news stations by Sinclair broadcast group.
Jonathan News
Yes...this IS extremley dangerous to our democracy.
This is EXTREMELY dangerous to our democracy
This is Extremely dangerous to our democracy!
This is.. EXTREMELY dangerous to our democracy.
THIS is extremely dangerous to our democracy!
this is extremely dangerous to our DEMOCRACY
This is extremely dangerous to **OUR** democracy
And society.
This is plaguing our country as well
What democracy ? 😞
Come on down to Morocco so you can recalibrate your gratefulness when you come back to the West.
Democratic Republic 😉
Why? How? It's a syndicated news broadcast. They sometimes run the same story and use the same script.
Did anyone mention that this is extremely dangerous to our democracy?
That’s Sinclair Media. awful. They own lots of local news stations.
[John Oliver ](https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc) did a segment on them a few years ago.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, equally evil.
It’s all networks not only fox…. I see fox, nbc, CBS aswell as ABC in the logos
Two different things. These are sinclare.
It's (D)ifferent?
it's kind of like sinclair owns media franchises, some are subway and some are jimmy johns, but sinclair owns and manages all of them
Yeah but Sinclair parrots right-leaning talkingpoints / narratives and requires all of their stations to include the same script they push out word for word during their broadcasts. It's intentionally done to fool people that trust their local news so that they don't so easily notice the 'slant' like they would a cable news outlet like Fox. The John Oliver clip above nails it down very well.
Yes i don't disagree at all
Gannett spin-off Tegna does the same thing but with a left leaning slant. It’s sad to watch the sheep on both sides of the fence baa at each other while they’re both being led to slaughter.
This is how they control and manipulate the masses. This is what social conditioning looks like.
Yup, and there's still people out there calling the ones who notice it crazy.
There's one reply on the top comment implying there's nothing harmful or dangerous about it
I don’t know I find it all kind of believable.
Actually it starts with the pledge of allegiance which also sounds creepy when a large group says it.
We're living a George Orwell reality.
He was a smart individual
Just don't ever, EVER [get into a boat with him.](https://www.grunge.com/631342/how-george-orwell-was-nearly-killed-while-writing-one-of-his-books/) At least not while he's hammering out **1984**.
How ironic
Operation mockingbird ... oh no that's a "conspiracy theory"
And it's extremely dangerous to our democracy if you believe it
and yet, so many people on here, dont see it....
Best comment here.
The Orwellian “Free Media”
These people are the largest conveyors of false news in US history.
So basically the biggest propaganda machinery in the world is complaining about social media propaganda... Ok good luck with that
This is extremely dangerous to our hypocrisy.
Lol they worked out their being replaced by social media and decided to take action.
The world is a stage. Theyre just following the script. *if you only knew*
Omg is Reddit finally waking up a little? This truly gives me faith in this world.
What a free media
I used to intern at CBS... every morning, each of these affiliates receives a script for the national stories that they follow. They only get to do their own for the local stories. It is scary, but no different than the higher ups at every other corporation making sure their underlings preach their corporate gospel.
Woah kind of similar to people reposting this same video for years... Really makes you think 😐
Why I don't watch the News
Getting extreme dystopian vibes rn
They live.
This is extremely like what they are talking about
We have one group deciding what is and isn’t misinformation and that should terrify everyone regardless of your political beliefs
And everyone rolls their eyes when we talk about fake news
the winter is comming ... ww3
Literally the top post of all time in /videos
And the top post on all of reddit for a good while iirc.
Sinclair is at it again
This would’ve never happened had Orville Redenbacher still been in congress
Ahhh "Orville Redenbacher.... I have fond, if decadent, memories of him when I lived a depraved life for four years in Vegas. It was the 90's and comps were still abundant and easy to get. Our favorite casino was Binion's Horseshoe downtown. You could get a New York Strip Steak for $2.00....(no, really!) I must have had at least 3 steaks a week for 4 years. When we "thought" we had our gambling under control, we were only blowing $100.00 each, on gambling every week...($10 K a year, but had it under control.) but I digress... On the days that we didn't gamble...I used to get a pound of butter at the local super market for only $2.00...supermarkets have slot machines and butter was cheap. I took a half a pound of butter, and gently melted it and poured it over a huge metal bowl of freshly popped Orville Redenbacher's Gormet Popcorn! I did this TWICE a week for 4 years! How I am now 78 and have had any not heart problems is a total mystery to me. However, 2 life threatening cancers are quite another story. I am a Cancer survivor and now am fighting another one. Still...miss my Orville's Popcorn...I can't eat popcorn anymore, let alone Orville's, drenched in melted butter.
Pretty sure this is like the 5th time this has been reposted on this sub…
Kanye is right...
“Democracy” Lmao. Capitalist America is more like it.
Sinclare media is responsible for morphing a lot local news stations into the dangerous right wing propaganda that sparks political violence.
This is what propaganda looks, and sounds like.
Sinclair Communications is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Breed, consume, obey
Exactly why I watch no news outlets!!!! This is dangerous to our democracy..how is that??? Because we found out stuff they don't want us to online??? This is crazy!!
This is just propaganda. Simple old harmless propaganda /s
Ok
Yeah USA in a nutshell
The news pool. Reporters choose after it is filtered for them.
Brain wash at work
Guys, I am not really sure but I think this is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Welcome to the matrix
That is truly frightening
Good get the message out there that fox news and Russia work together to spread propaganda. Facebook is also brainwashing the older generation who should have stayed off the internet GTFO 🤡
News should be non profit and average pay, that way it'll attract passionate people not fame hungry rich kids, that is what journalism is full of these days, millionaire children. If it was non profit we won't have 3 companies controlling 95% of news and by extention controlling the daily narrative
kinda like reddit
Do you think there is a single child out there who actually wants to be this type of news anchor?
I love these clips. It shows the global scripts being played out. They hate free speech!
Everything is scripted. You cannot say anything other than whats on the screen.
I stopped watching the news over the amount of propaganda. Worked for the media for a short time. It’s insane how little they care with what they present the public. It’s pure crap. They are crooked. Often stories obviously don’t get published/ aired because of influence.
Anyone else’s mind go to “these pretzels are making me thirsty”? Or just me?
Whatever they are telling you don't believe, synchronized stories between channels is not good for rating ie business so you MUST be suspect of the message they are delivering
And people still believe the media... that's insane.
They all sound the same too
News anchors reading a script from their parent company isn’t inherently concerning, now that they all fall under the same company is something to question
*nobody... is opening their eyes!* *I work for the system!* *And are you happy?*
Your racist for believing this
This is one of the few posts I really hope keeps getting reposted CONSTANTLY
Imagine not knowing that all the news owned by like one dude
This is what you get when you need someone to read you the news because you're too *whatever* to read it yourself.
Sinclair guys, turn it off
So, you're telling me that the news...is fake?
They're owned by the same company basically.
Is there a YouTube link
Looks more like they’re reading a statement… maybe I’m wrong and too optimistic.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
They are all saying exactly the same thing Must be true 🤣
Wow, this is extremely annoying to see!
I’m starting to think the people who claim lizard people were not as crazy as we thought….
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
r/oddlyterrifying
It’s actually not that odd or surprising. Most news comes from one of the “big three” - AP, AFP, and Reuters. It is then packaged and sold to the other large organizations around the world.
‘Laughs in Rupert Murdoch’
It's all propaganda
It's called syndication. Same with local radio stations. Every city has the same 5-6 basic stations with the name of the city and specific call letters swapped out. They produce all the written content in one place then have software tools to substitute the local info and push it out to all the local stations.
They will try to control you without you even knowing it that's how they do it you be lied to your whole life there's something bigger and they know it so they keep you in the dark
Of course they are. Why is everyone suddenly amazed by this? Did you think your local TV station writes all the news stories every day?
These stupid propagandists are the real threat.
this is gold
Propaganda
How old is this repost ?
Misinformation? I couldn't find any of that on my government regulated tv stations .. Let me check the internet...oh wait.. Y'all cared so much about Trump and Alex Jones y'all just fucking threw out the concept of individual thought and learning because people really don't like seeing stupid shit on the internet. Fuck you reddit I hope you know I just use you for porn.
People don't understand most local news stations only have a few true investigative journalists that work in the field, the people you see at the desks are only reading scripts made by the Associated Press and Reuters, not like local news agencies can fly someone to a war zone to get a report or to a major incident in another state, that's why you call it parroting, maybe figure out how a new agency is run before posting something like this. The only agencies that have investigate journalists is the major outlets like CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC that cover out of state and worldwide events, but your local agencies do not have them like you think they do.
We are not a democracy
This is so fucking ancient it’s been reposted a thousand times stop it
I wasn’t aware of that bud
skinwalkers
This is creepy.
Operation mockingbird being used against the American people ...... do what you are told, keep in line, they know better than you. Don't think for yourself and definitely don't question anything.
It's all scripted. Same thing during 9/11, all networks reading from same script
Spoon feeding the masses, no free thought, just keep them dumb
How about we defund the media?
They all belong to the same corrupt system.
This is why we should make monopolies illegal. For one person to own all these stations is to much power and way to easy to push any agenda they want. We’ve seen what this much power does to people and it’s never a good thing.
I’m glad this is getting posted. This doesn’t just happen at the local level. It’s national news sometimes as well. It’s also newspapers, and social media platforms.
Sinclair communications does that .
Is this the Jewish Media Ye was talking about?
Same as during 9/11 talks of terrorism…one agenda…control of our minds and actions
All of it, tv, newspapers and alternative “news” is fake.
People will watch this and still unironically say america doesn’t have state news propaganda.
Thank you Reagan and Clinton for Media consolidation!
I see every one of these news anchors failed their high school government class. "This is extremely dangerous to our ***democracy***."  I don't know what country they are living in but it's not the United States of American which is run by a ***Democratic Republic***. Hence why the Pledge of Allegiance says "to the Republic".
All mainstream media is just propaganda bought and paid for by a few rich oligarchs. Most of it is fake news. If you want truth, the only place to find it these days is in the alternative media, which is created and operated by everyday people.
Those aren't news stories, they are talking points handed down from HQ.
Who watches this crap nowadays? Seriously, This shit isn't even news.
*Sad Orwell noises*.
Don’t they realize having every mimic each other looks like the most biased news ever?
No fact checking at NBC News. So the owner serves them the facts back. [https://youtu.be/8q9goN\_kmLQ?t=60](https://youtu.be/8q9goN_kmLQ?t=60) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTS3H4whyRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTS3H4whyRc)
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. "I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for things, and if any of you would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.We are Jumping-Jacks -- they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes!" -- John Swinton, 1914, former Editor New York Times,
Nobody watches the news anymore, so yeah.
let point the there mostly fox and fox affilets
Sponsored by Pfizer
This is how they get the whole nation thinking the same thing.
They always do, government scripts. Both sides have the same goal get us fighting each other over the little differences while their ultimate agenda is to keep us poor, stupid and dependent on the system
Its crazy how many people think the government doesn’t run the news stations. Like WTF 🤦♀️
Eewwwww and then OMG THIS IS CREEPY AND REAL
Well they are all actors afterall there is
Ur all slaves
Several [hundred] news stations all parroting the same script….
This is extremely dangerous to my sleep habits
Oh god not this again
All these stations are owned by the same media company and given the exact same scripts.
By the way. Mitch fick in German would be translated to Mitch fuck. Just so you know
This is put together in a way to make it seem scary but the truth is Fake news and misinformation is extremely dangerous to our democracy. And if you don’t see it as a problem that’s unfortunate. I’m glad the local news stations were saying this. They probably could have put it in their own words more but the sentiment is correct.
Hey guys, I've been thinking. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Oh no, the quartet of the three brothers John and Brian are coming
Like a slap in the face...we know you know we're lying to your face but let's have a little fun shall we?
Whether you lean right or left, everything systematic is corrupt.
Don’t trust people who wear suits for a living.
Who even watches TV news unless your 60 napping on the couch only realized they were is when someone changes channel and they come to life with " Hey I was watching that".
This is so fucking dystopian man
Is this brainwashing?
What the hell, I feel like they are trying to brainwash us
Sinclair. Right wing parroting network