Yep. Vladimir Putin…
“Do you understand that as a practical matter every word that comes out of the mouths of network news people is scripted and approved by someone?”
Yes, we do. And that’s what we see as the problem.
Propaganda is written, and non-propaganda is written. That doesn’t make non-propaganda and propaganda the same, you fucking idiot.
Mr. Smith makes a sound argument against further consolidation of the media.
I call bull shit.
Joseph Goebbels lives.
In re Mr. Smith (from his Wikipedia page): Smith began his career “selling pornographic videos in Baltimore’s redlight district during the 1970s.” Aaaand…
In a August 1996 prostitution sting, Smith was charged with committing a perverted and unnatural sex act in a Sinclair company vehicle. He was sentenced to community service, which was fulfilled by having Sinclair station WBFF produce reports on a local drug counseling program.[10][11]
A real charmer this one.
I’ll meet him half-way. If it’s important that his anchors do the must-run stuff. then have them say “Now we have a must-run segment from Sinclair National commetator Boris Epshteyn” before running the segment.
The issue for me isn’t that everybody reads the views of their corporate overlords. The issue for me is that the corporate overlords want to make everyone pretend its their own viewpoint, cultivated from years of trustworthy journalism.
Whenever CONservatives are wailing about “INDOCTRINATION!”, please know that they are projecting…
Both “Hamlet” and “Ishtar” were scripted, but audiences can discern the difference.
Here’s a nice little meta moment for Smith to come across if and when he reads the article:
“Not that you would print it, . . ."
And there he’d be, reading, in the Times, his own presumption that the Times won’t fairly report his statement to the paper. His word-for-word accusation that the media is dishonest would be there, staring him in the face.
Are you STILL ‘explaining’ Sinclair??? Nobody is buying it. You screwed up. You thought you were more clever by half. You ‘believe’ you can script American thinking. You gambled and lost this one.
Between their fealty to Russia and their disdain for equality, the Goopers have become more emboldened to flout their racism, scoff at science and drown the masses with this media ‘buy-up’. All the while PP continues to fan the flames of fear and hatred.
Oh, and this too.
Now, see, there’s the problem right there: Wikipedia is widely known in conservative circles as a den of liberal iniquity.
Conservapedia, on the other hand . . . well, this is interesting: a quick check reveals no entries for either “David Smith” or “Sinclair Broadcasting Group.” Hmm.
Faux equivalency trick used by rat-wingers since the dawning of time…so tired.
On today’s of “All My Nuance”…
Hilarious Der Stoopid … he himself just did what he’s bitchin’ about!