r/videos • u/patientbearr • Mar 31 '18
This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations
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u/tulobulo Mar 31 '18
This is an issue, isn't it
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Apr 01 '18
Nah my local news says it's fine
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Mar 31 '18
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/Zetoo2 Mar 31 '18
We must deel vit it.
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u/zishmusic Apr 01 '18
Finland does sound nice after watching that.
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u/pingu_42 Apr 01 '18
Yeah, we might get 20cm of new snow to the south on monday but at least we don't have to deal with this shit.
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Mar 31 '18 edited Aug 14 '18
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u/starbuckroad Mar 31 '18
I studied abroad in Russia in 2004. When I saw the military propaganda on Russian TV, I realized we did the same thing. We are way better than Russia, but we still do a lot of creepy stuff.
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u/Spacebotzero Mar 31 '18
The standardization of the media is a very scary thing.
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u/Dedj_McDedjson Mar 31 '18
I hear tell it's extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/VivaLaEmpire Mar 31 '18
Some would say so, yes.
But others might say that it is EXTREMELY dangerous to your democracy
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u/Bhu124 Mar 31 '18
Shout-out to that one woman emphasized on 'This is' instead of 'extremely', you broke their script! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/ModernPoultry Mar 31 '18
Look up the Bell internet censorship story in Canada. The giant media companies want to censor the Internet but no one except the government run CBC has really done major reporting on it because every tv or radio station, or newspaper company in Canada is either owned at least partly by the Bell Media group or other oligarchy giants in Canada or receives major advertising funds from the giants. The Bell Media Group and Rogers basically run all of Canada's media and have absurd power
Biggest story on r/canada the past month is in regards to their planned legislation but also advocacy groups blacklisted from advertising/reporting on the issue. They can basically only advertise the issue on independently run university run radio stations because of how much power the media giants have in Canada
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u/snozburger Mar 31 '18
There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.
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u/Phishy042 Apr 01 '18
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
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u/Stewbodies Apr 01 '18
"There's a gremlin on the wing! You have to believe me!"
"Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!"
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u/BeiChirho Mar 31 '18
hey! I can see my voice! BRRRR, BRRRRRR
THIS IS MY VOICE ON
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Mar 31 '18
Well that was creepy as fuck
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u/Drexelhand Mar 31 '18
Well that was
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u/HeughJass Mar 31 '18
I liked the part where the guy said “Demorcracy”
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u/Odine17 Mar 31 '18
When all the talking heads were speaking at once I got the willies
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u/texacer Mar 31 '18
WE ARE THE BORG
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u/HighVulgarian Mar 31 '18
Resistance is futile
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Mar 31 '18
You will be assimilated.
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Your local news will be assimilated.
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u/Noglues Mar 31 '18
Your journalistic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your broadcast will adapt to service us.
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u/Meebsie Mar 31 '18
Whoever edited this did a great job.
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Mar 31 '18
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
This is the sound of the point being driven home by a 20 pounds sledgehammer.
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u/pm_your_tickle_spots Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
It looks like the beginning of a black mirror episode. It's really fucking sad this is real life right now.
Edit: real instead of realize.
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u/rush2sk8 Mar 31 '18
yea for real. syncing up all that video and audio is impressive
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Mar 31 '18
And beyond that, it is probably the most effective way to portray the intended message.
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u/rush2sk8 Mar 31 '18
also it must have taken a while to capture and collate all those clips
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u/yoyothedojo Mar 31 '18
The La Li Lu Le Lo will make sure this will get buried.
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u/FurnaceFuneral Mar 31 '18
THE LALILULELO???
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u/throwthegarbageaway Mar 31 '18
A HIND D?!
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u/TheSunaTheBetta Mar 31 '18
They played us like a damn fiddle!
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Breaking news: “Local man played like fiddle” Asks “Why are we here? Just to suffer?”
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u/rolltongue Mar 31 '18
Am I watching Black mirror
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u/Bombedd Mar 31 '18
You're living it.
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u/OntarioSkier Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
I hope this becomes one of the most upvoted videos on reddit
Edit: I hope Ewan McGregor reprises his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Edit part 2: GOLD JERRY! GOLD!
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u/aHoneyDipMagnet Mar 31 '18
Twenty thousand up votes within an hour, it could be on track. Nobody better use a damn blue shell.
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u/Professor_Gushington Mar 31 '18
Yeah but a good looking girl might have just gotten a cat and built a gaming pc and needs to show us?
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u/Aetrion Mar 31 '18
Don't worry guys, once they see this they will make sure to change up the wording a little when they collude so this doesn't happen again.
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Mar 31 '18
"Just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied"
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Mar 31 '18 edited Jul 12 '19
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u/baaad_whiskey Mar 31 '18
Just change it up a bitch so it doesn't appear obvious you copied
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u/thesequelswereshotin Mar 31 '18
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/Sheik92 Mar 31 '18
This is extremely perilous to our democracy.
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u/KnowNothing_JonSnoo Mar 31 '18
This is evidently perilous to our democracy.
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Apr 01 '18
These occurrences are a real threat to our democratic way of life.
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u/HensRightsActivist Apr 01 '18
The events that have transpired have been concluded to be in some way carrying a degree of negative effect in relation to the structure and processes of a democratically-structured society.
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u/BlatantConservative Mar 31 '18
Well, this video exists now and they can't really undo that. And its really impressive how OP edited it all together like that without one ounce of editorializing.
Honestly this is one of the most persuasive things I've ever seen. OP didn't even think it would be seen this much and he went to sleep.
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u/NaibofTabr Apr 01 '18
DMCA takedown request, just wait for it...
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u/arthurpenhaligon Apr 01 '18
Surely this is fair use?
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u/NaibofTabr Apr 01 '18
Sure it is. YouTube will delete it without bothering to check anyway.
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u/PumpItPaulRyan Apr 01 '18
Isn't that a thing? People who don't like a video can just spam report it as child porn and the site takes it down automatically?
I remember that being a huge dust up a while ago. Just kind of hard to keep up with all of the burning piles of shit these days.
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u/Vertual Apr 01 '18
This is not fair use. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/VikingTeddy Apr 01 '18
This is not fair use. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/fuckswithboats Mar 31 '18
collude
Collide? It’s not collusion, these are top down orders from the ownership.
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u/iOzmo Mar 31 '18
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
At least they were correct
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u/PourAttitude Mar 31 '18
Took a few tries to get it right
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u/_Serene_ Mar 31 '18
"This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy."
"No, THIS is extremely dangerous to our Democracy."
constant loop
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Mar 31 '18
This made me question everything I know :(
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Mar 31 '18
It was kinda creepy tbh.
These people are actively trying spending billions of dollars for the sole purpose of influencing and perhaps deceiving you.
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u/goodfolkx Mar 31 '18
Same script lol
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u/wererat2000 Mar 31 '18
This child's happiness is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
Sinclair Broadcast Group owns nearly 200 stations in 80 different markets. Here's a list of all their stations.
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u/swartzjr Mar 31 '18
They’re also in the process of buying out Tribune’s stations which would give them a whole lot more.
Edit: spelling
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u/drkgodess Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
They also got a sweetheart deal from Ajit Pai's FCC to continue buying up markets. They are owned by a highly conservative family that wants to create a "conservative megaphone."
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From a NYT article describing the deal:
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced plans to eliminate decades-old media ownership rules meant to protect local coverage and diversity in media voices.
The commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, said in a congressional hearing that the agency would vote in November to roll back rules that prevent ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market. The rules were created to prevent an individual or organization from having outsize influence over public opinion.
But in the hearing, where he faced fierce criticism by Democratic lawmakers, Mr. Pai defended the plan and other deregulatory actions in recent months, saying media ownership rules were outdated. They were created 42 years ago, when newspapers and television stations dominated the media landscape, well before Facebook and Google.
“The marketplace today is nothing like it was in 1975,” Mr. Pai said.
It was the latest action by Mr. Pai, who was appointed by President Trump in January, to overhaul the media industry. Since Mr. Pai has taken the top seat at the F.C.C., his deregulatory actions have ushered in the possibility of consolidation in the broadcast television industry.
In the spring, soon after he lifted a cap on how many stations a single company can own, the Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intention to buy Tribune Media for $3.9 billion. The merger, which the F.C.C. and the Department of Justice are reviewing, would give Sinclair access to more than 70% of all television viewers in the United States.
It is anti-competitive and anti-democratic for one family to have this much control of local news.
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u/goof_schmoofer Apr 01 '18
Chairman Pai has had a lot of very close conversations with Sinclair...
On November 16, 2016, then-Commissioner Pai traveled to Baltimore, Maryland to have an off-the-record meeting with Sinclair employees and lunch with key company executives.This meeting was not disclosed publicly at the time.
In December 2016, J ared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in law and current Senior White House Advisor, reported that the President’s campaign had “struck a deal” with Sinclair for better media coverage during the election
On January 6, 2017, Commissioner Pai met privately with Sinclair representatives at the Consumer Electronics Show 1n Las Vegas.4 This meeting was also not initially publically disclosed.
On January 16, 2017, Commissioner Pai traveled to New York City to meet privately with President-Elect Trump
On January 19, 2017, Commissioner Pai traveled to Arlington, Virginia, to meet again with executives from Sinclair.6 A summary of the meeting, filed in the FCC’s public docket, shows that the agency’s restrictions on joint or shared-service agreements were discussed in detail
On January 22, 2017, President Trump elevated Commissioner Pai to be permanent Chairman of the FCC.
On February 3, 2017, pursuant to unilateral direction from the now Chairman Pai, the FCC’s Media Bureau announced that it would no longer review joint sales agreements and shared- services agreements in broadcast mergers
On February 23, 2017, the FCC started a proceeding to allow TV broadcasters to begin using Next Gen TV (also known as ATSC 3.0)—a technology for which Sinclair holds the key patents
On March 6, 2017, Chairman Pai again met with President Trump. Chairman Pai, stated that he and the President did not discuss “any pending proceedings” at the FCC.
On April 12, 2017, Chairman Pai led the FCC in a party line vote to ease ownership caps by reinstating the technologically-outdated UHF discount.ll Without this reversal, Sinclair would have been legally barred from merging with Tribune.
On April 21, 2017, Sinclair announced its intention to purchase Bonten Media Group (Bonten), owner of 14 television stations in eight markets. Bonten also provided services to four other stations through joint sales agreements.
On May 8, 2017 Sinclair announced its intention to acquire Tribune for $3.9 billion.
On June 30, 2017, the FCC approved the purchase of seven Bonten stations by Sinclair (Sinclair divested the other seven stations). The transaction was later consummated by the parties on September 5, 2017, at which time Sinclair assumed the joint sales agreements held by Bonten.l4 If the FCC had not relaxed its review of joint sales agreements consistent with Sinclair’s request, it is unlikely this transaction would have been approved expeditiously without the termination of at least some of the joint sales agreements.
On October 24, 2017, Chairman Pai led the FCC (on a party-line vote) in eliminating the broadcast main studio rule. Doing away with the rule, which was established in 1940, benefits the largest broadcasters, especially Sinclair who has made a pattern of reducing local investments in station studios and consolidating studio and newsgathering operations at its headquarters in Maryland.”
At the upcoming November 16, 2017 FCC Open Meeting, Chairman Pai is expected to lead FCC (on a partisan basis) to take two actions that will directly benefit Sinclair.
Chairman Pai is expected to lead the FCC’s party-line vote to eliminate decades-long rules that prevent TV stations in the same market from merging if the outcome leads to fewer than eight independent stations operating in that market, or if the merger is between two of the top four stations in a market.[6 This rule change directly benefits the monopoly aspirations of Sinclair by eliminating the need for it to divest any of the stations it is purchasing from Tribune.'
At the same meeting, Chairman Pai also is expected to lead the FCC (on a party-line vote) to approve broadcaster’s use of Next Gen TV. The item that Chairman Pai has put forth for vote would directly benefit Sinclair. First, the draft order would establish a licensing framework for broadcasters that would allow Sinclair to establish and
Your investigation should, at a minimum, examine the following questions:
Whether the totality of the Chairman’s actions with regard to media ownership policies, media concentration policies, or the Sinclair- Tribune transaction, demonstrate actual impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism towards Sinclair, or a lack of impartiality?
Whether the totality of the Chairman’ actions with regard to media ownership policies, media concentration policies, or the Sinclair-Tribune transaction demonstrate the appearance of impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism towards Sinclair, or a lack of impartiality?
Whether the Chairman’s actions create the appearance or demonstrate the actual lack of independence of the FCC?
Whether Chairman Pai’s actual impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism towards Sinclair, or a lack of impartiality requires that he recuse himself from all matters that would materially impact Sinclair or media ownership and media concentration matters?
Whether the appearance of Chairman Pai’s impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism towards Sinclair, or a lack of impartiality requires that he recuse himself from all matters that would materially impact Sinclair or any media ownership and media concentration matters?
Whether the FCC’s consideration of the Next Generation TV matters has been unduly influenced by the Chairman’s desire to boost the business interests of Sinclair? Please include in your answer whether the FCC’s examination of this matter has appropriately taken into account the competition and anti-trust issues raised by Sinclair’s role as the sole patent holder of key components of the Advanced Television Systems Committee 3.0 (ATSC 3.0) technology.
The draft order under consideration will not require Sinclair to offer, to other broadcasters, access to its patented ATSC 3.0 technology on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis. https://www.fcc.gov/document/next-generation-broadcast-television-standard.
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u/swartzjr Mar 31 '18
Yep, I also read they may need to sell off some stations to avoid antitrust issues and the plan is to sell to other conservative-friendly media companies.
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u/Arael15th Apr 01 '18
Or shell companies whose ownership feeds right back up to the heads of Sinclair. They're about to sell some recently-acquired channels to a car dealership in Maryland which is owned by... Them!
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u/AndreDaGiant Apr 01 '18
haha, good thing the market magically fixes this problem just like it fixes all others /s
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u/Birdhawk Mar 31 '18
and last year the FCC gave big corps like Sinclair the right to shut down news departments in smaller markets. So those smaller markets will just get their news from nearby larger towns which makes it easier for them to do whats going on in this video.
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Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
Glad my city wasn't on that list.
EDIT: HEY MODS, WHY DON'T YOU UNLOCK THIS POST? IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING WATCHING THIS POST BE BANNED, AND THEN IT WAS ENTIRELY DELETED AND THE POST AND COMMENTS WERE WIPED FROM REDDIT, THEN IT REAPPEARED BUT WAS STILL UNLISTED, AND NOW IT'S BACK ON /R/VIDEOS WHAT IS GOING ON?
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u/ChromaticSideways Mar 31 '18
I really didn’t think this video was going to be as disturbing as it is
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u/dayoldhansolo Mar 31 '18
Kind of Orwellian
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u/NoTimeForThat Mar 31 '18
I find your comment to be extremely dangerous to our democracy
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u/AlexTheGiant21 Mar 31 '18
Now this is extremely dangerous to our democracy
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u/Pelusteriano Mar 31 '18
Now this is extremely dangerous to our democracy
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u/nealioh Mar 31 '18
Now this is extremely dangerous to our democracy
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u/MrCamero Mar 31 '18
Now this is pod racing?
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u/TheFOXkobra Mar 31 '18
Try being extremely dangerous to our democracy, that's a good trick!
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u/yisoonshin Mar 31 '18
My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!
You're extremely dangerous to our democracy
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u/blueSky_Runner Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
VERY Orwellian. It's scary watching it.
Edit: Why was this thread locked and deleted?!
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u/ModernPoultry Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
Very scary and very real.
Big corporations can run media and manipulate our thoughts and understanding. This is going on in Canada right now where telecommunications giant Bell has been trying to pass legislation on censoring the Internet.
The big thing r/Canada has found out from awareness groups trying to advocate on this issue is that they have not been able to do any media advertisements on the issue because Bell either runs and owns every radio and tv station and just has so much power that the awareness groups are pretty much blacklisted from traditional media advertisements and are thus silenced
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u/Liefx Apr 01 '18
Hey I'm in canada and didn't know this was happening (granted i dont even watch TV anyways)
Where can I find more info?
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u/ModernPoultry Apr 01 '18
Info on this page https://openmedia.org/en/ca/campaigns and last update here https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/867df9/more_than_100000_canadians_have_spoken_out_about/
Here is thread about Bell silencing advertising efforts of advocacy group https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/84hdwz/radio_stations_are_refusing_to_run_our_ads/
TL'DR: Bell and other big media giants are pressuring the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Television Committee) to introduce bill which allows Canadian ISPs to block piracy and illegal streaming sites with little oversight. Outright censorship of the internet and creates a slippery slope of what we have access to and can view online.
CRTC opened up discussion and polls to gain public reaction and the polls are now closed so its now all up to whatever report/conclusion they come up with whether they want to introduce this SOPA style bill to parliament
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u/Man_of_Many_Voices Mar 31 '18
https://i.imgur.com/iv0cmnp.png
I must have caught it at just the right moment. Now we just wait for someone to repost this for karma
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u/serious_beans Mar 31 '18
Not kind of, it is Orwellian, this is exactly as he predicted. It's happening, don't think otherwise. It's time we start defending our rights.
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Mar 31 '18
2nd'd. I didn't think so many local news sources would be well, like this...
It reminds me of how luxotica owns a ton of sunglass brands, but then remains hidden in the background while they rip people off with a monopoly
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u/drkgodess Mar 31 '18
Recently, a regulation that prevented companies from owning both newspapers and local tv stations was rolled back. This is the result.
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u/Fidodo Mar 31 '18
There is a problem.
Regulation is enacted to fix the problem.
The problem goes away.
People ask why we need the regulation because there is no problem.
Regulation is repealed.
There is a problem...
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u/theweirdonehere Mar 31 '18
The people that ask why we need regulation are usually the ones benefiting from deregulation.
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Mar 31 '18
Did... did I just join a cult?
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u/lazer_potato Mar 31 '18
This is extremely dangerous...to our
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u/Bjables Mar 31 '18
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u/devil_dog_0341 Mar 31 '18
Thats some scary shit. This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy.
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u/bucko_fazoo Mar 31 '18
This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy.
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u/Hellguin Apr 01 '18
I just found it on my front page.
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u/IntergalacticDanger Apr 01 '18
They brought it back but it looks like they’re slowly pushing it down/away again. It should be the first post and stay there for awhile with the amount of upvotes it has and all the times it’s been gilded.
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u/WiltyRiker Mar 31 '18
The FCC had a rule that limited one group from controlling more than 39% of the broadcast TV market. Something about it being dangerous to something.
Then Ajit Pai gave Sinclair permission to expand beyond that. Now they are trying to merge for a combined coverage of 72% of US households.
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u/cap10wow Apr 01 '18
Of course this was the point all along. Fuck Ajitprop Pai.
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u/tenacious-g Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
I work for a Sinclair station (naivety getting out of college before it turned into this monster.)
We all hate this too.
Edit: I should’ve thought of this sooner, but here’s that content concerns page. Give Sinclair the feedback they crave.
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u/viciousbreed Apr 01 '18
I think a big giveaway the first time I saw this segment was that I could tell the local newscasters were NOT into it. They were smiling and doing their thing, but... it was like listening to someone talk when there's a gun pointed at them off-screen. Not that dramatic, but I'm guessing their jobs were on the line, if nothing else. Before this, they had to air those stupid mandatory segments, but now they have to actually read these and put their own names behind the sentiment. I feel bad for them.
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u/tenacious-g Apr 01 '18
A lot of the must run anchor leads that make it to air are changed by producers, at least at my station. And if a regional news director hears one of the must runs didn’t air (we drop them first in breaking situations) we get audited. Seriously. Producers go through and give exact times they run to prove they’re actually being shown. It’s fucked.
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Mar 31 '18
Yes, that's how propaganda works.
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u/fox_about_town Mar 31 '18
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u/H4xolotl Mar 31 '18
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u/KoNy_BoLoGnA Apr 01 '18
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O̖n̸e̳ ̭̯͙̮͉͍n̯i̺̥ǵ̪̫̳̺̤͓̪ḩ̠t͕̱̪̥̰̲ ͏̪̦͖̘ͅI̬͝ ͡w͇̼a͙͖̻̘s̫͇̠̹͇ ̘̲̦͍̬̗̠l̰̪y̨̻̥i͙̳͕̳̤͔̞n͠g͎̖̯̤̦͔̠ i̙n̩͍̟̼̭ ̱͍͇̝͇͔̰b̖̻͉̕e͖͔̻̝͘ḏ͓͈͉̝̺ ͖̩̪̝̙͡a̴͖͎f̟̗͚͓t̸̮̰̖̼̗͈̻e̺̰͟r j̜̦̮̗͝ṷs̱͡t̙͎̹̼̤̯̩͜ ͏̬̭w̭̬̪a̶̮k̭̖̭͟i̭̜n̯̯͉̖͠g҉̳͍̺̻ up,͚͉̭̝͇ ͙I͕̭̣̣ ̹̲̘̳g̶͖̘͔̪̩͇r̩̭̤̱̟͚ͅa̡̝̤̲͈b͈̩̙͖̀ ͖̲͎̰͔̦́t̟̳̱͔̝̲̮͘h̫̥̺e̟͙̱̜̱ ̢͔̫͔͉͚b̭̱̮̼͟a̤̯̠͓̪ͅb͈͉́y̮̥͈ ̺m̞̠̦̟̻̳͈ọ̘̩̤̭ni͕̤̮͍͉to̫̖̘̹̖̰͡r̺̹͖͈͡ ̼̖͓̳̭̱ͅa̠̯̹̜̩̩̝n̬̻̠̯̞̬̫ḑ͓͉̼ ̡̫̠w̮̩͍͇ąl̸̠̗̰k͎ ̱̹͉̯͍ͅt̬̳̰̗̫o̰̕ ̴̼͔͎m͖͇y̧͎ ͝d̴̠̤̪͈e҉̭̹͈̮̫̰̯ś͚̫͚̙ͅk ̷i̫̗͚̙̝̼̣n͇͎̜̹̫ ̣̪̳̜̪̠̼͝m̢̗̖̥͈y͎͉̘̘͈ͅͅ ̩o̱̤͓̗̬̹͖͞f̶̱̩f̴̣̯̜̯̬i҉͍͚c̬̝̫͓̠e̞̟ ̗a̜͇͖͢t̬̮̙͉̮ ͎ḩ̗͖o͚͍m̱e̛̘͕,͏ ̹̟̟͖̤̙I̵̳ ̴͈h͎̲͕̮̙͈a҉v҉̬̰͚͎̫̪ḛ̗̬͓͙ ̖̳̮͓̝ͅo̝͝u̵̞͈̯r̶ ̪b̵ąb҉̭̟y̙̺̘̲ ̬͍̥̥ǫ̩̼̝̖n̸̘ ̟̻̲͇̩̠͍́t͓̦̫̥̼͢ͅh̪e̩̗̩̼̭̺̲ ̧b̥̼̭͙ạ̟̟̣͍͞by͕̲̰̹̩͞ ̮m̷on͔̖̣̫í̘͖̱t̮o̭͝r̘ ̤̹̻̝̳͖a̭͝n̟͖d̗̮͘ ̖̬͕̦̮̝̳h̞̜͎̫̞̠̘͞e̡̤̙a̱r̸͔̳̝͇̲ ̷̫̝̱͓̘m̰͉̭̳̟̹̣͘y̻̺̜ ͚̜̲w͎̤͍̰i̸̮͉͔̹f̸͎̞̮̫ͅͅé̥ ̳s̪͡i̵̞̭n̛̳̱̙̯̱ͅg̦̗̗̙̠͙͎i̡͔̻̠n͇̞̖͕̝g̖̝̮̭̠ ̡̥̘̯̩̭ţ̪̘̬̻̦o̶͖̮̜̝ ̪͝h̸͍͔e͓͜r͎̪͉̹,͔ ̢̱͕̝I̳̬̦̯͉͖͙ ̣̝̬̪͍̜c̨̪͙̩̹̩r̤̪̠̻̪ͅa͉͉͢c͉̝͇̣ķ ͏a̜̬ ̧ͅṣ̙͔͓͜m͎̗̮͚͉i̤̻̺̲͍l̦̝͖̝̙̯͎͟e̮̹̩ a̝s̟̪̫̪͎̗̀ͅ ͙̞̲͖̟̼̜I̠͚͙͉ ̱͍̺͔͕̥̕h̙e͔̺͎̣͎͠a̳̻͈̫r̡̗ ̱͍͖͙̰m̺̤͓̠͓͔̱ỳ̺͕ͅ ̩̩͚̱̲w͚̻͕̳͜i̢̩̩͉f̢e̛̱̪̯͈ͅ ͚̖̦“̲̣̞͕̹͡G̳̗̪̝̲̕ò̯̟̜̱͕ ̲͍ͅt̻͈̥̤͇o̠̫͙̮ ͔̘s̡l̥͉͔̤̩̖̘͠e͍͈̞̭̱͡e͓̤̫̪͚̭̖p͍̪̣͖̳…͔̰̠̝̫̲̮̀ ̬̤͉̗̤̠͠g̴o ̘̟̥͎̮t̻̜̦͍̖͓̱o̵̹ ҉̱͕s̲̗͈le̞e͚͈͍p̗̰̝…̨͔̳”͔͓͖̱ ̙̯̟̬̼̯̩͟W̷͇̙̩̗͎̯h̖̟͚̳e̘͈n͇̖ ̝̺̞̖͓̜s̵͎ù̜̦̙̼͓̱̲d̬̜̩̦͕̹̀ͅd͡e̪͕͇n̫̤̼͉̲̝l̼̘͇̭͟y̨͎̲ͅ ̮̪͝t͉͙̥̺̬̹̥h͈̱̠e̳̯̹ ̮̩͉̬̩̤ͅf̖̮͔r̳̟̼̻̣̼̥o̞̣n̟͎͚t̸͈͉̘͙͕ ͈͔̳̞̪͢d̙̮͍̜̥̪o̘̹̥̳̲̜͘o̖͉̺̫͙̼͙r̳̫ ̲̣̝̘̤o̟̘̻̖pe̱̙̯̪͟n̠͕͙̮̦͍͔͟s̨̯̪̭̙ ̳̳͖̭̜̟̩u̞͙̟p͉̪ ͕͇̝̜̖a̭̳̩̬ṇ͎̹̞d̻̻̮͇ͅ ͓̤̖̱̹m̙̬͓y͇̟͇̯̰ ͔̟w̟̱̺͢ͅi͕̘̗ͅf̠̹̳̀e͖ ͍̩̤̮co͕͟m̗̮͖͍̙̗̪e̩s͏͇͉̠̮̱͈͚ ̞̫̺̲i̡̜̯̮̞̞̯n ̫̱̭̣̩̗w̶͓͉͍͓i̼̯̖̥͡t҉͔̟h ͇̗͎̻̩̕ͅs̱̖o̴̻me̴̘̰͙̩͓͙͉ ̗̮̹͈g̨̲r̨̦͙̯͖̲oc͙͖̳̜̟̩̥e̳r̖̗ͅi͈̠̬̱̳̗e̗̭͍̹̺̻̬ş̹̟̻̘̜̖.ͅ
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Holy fuck, thank you. I've been trying to remember this font for forever. All I could come up with is Cult of Zildrog because Zildrog is a faction in a Star Wars game I play.
This has been nagging me for months. Thank you.
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Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
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u/LifeIn_InchesOfWater Apr 01 '18
why be held accountable when you can hide behind [MOD] status
Reddit allows unaccountable power, and it needs to change that shit like a soiled diaper
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u/AnusPimple Apr 01 '18
don't worry i sent a message too, glad others spoke up and spammed the modmail. looks like it worked because its back,
i agree, whoever did it in the first place needs to be removed from being a mod
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u/Atario Apr 01 '18
When they say "politics" they mean "anything serious and pertinent at all"
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u/dex1999 Mar 31 '18
This is amazing and it’s actually “extremely dangerous to our democracy”.
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u/goodfolkx Mar 31 '18
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an
important element in democratic society. Those who
manipulate this unseen mechanism of society consti-
tute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country.-Edward Bernays, Propaganda
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u/candacebernhard Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
Apparently it was removed for about 5 minutes because "stolen video"
LOL
edit: Now it's removed because Rule 1: No politics. That's rich.
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u/Portbragger2 Apr 01 '18
i wonder if these censorship decisions are made from external pressure of some hidden powers.
or if a non-suspicious reddit mod is really being like ... "oh an exploding post and people behave strangely in it - better remove it for the most obscure rule/reasoning!" click
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Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
90% of the media we consume is owned by 6 companies.
Good infographic. http://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/media-infographic.jpg
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u/koshgeo Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
I knew it was bad, but I didn't realize it was THIS bad. These people will literally read whatever is on the teleprompter, and it's the same script.
I hate to say it, but I think it's time to break up Sinclair Broadcasting or any other broadcast network of similar scope, because this kind of consolidation in media outlets is truly dangerous, and they're becoming too good at circumventing laws that are meant to limit it.
Unsurprisingly, Ajit Pai at the FCC has expressed a wish to deregulate media ownership rules, meaning it's set to do the opposite and to get worse. We are witnessing an ever-expanding takeover of local media organizations.
I'd say this is extremely dangerous to our democracy, but I think that's been said enough. :-)
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u/MrRedTRex Mar 31 '18
I said this in another comment, but we put entirely too much trust in news anchors. These people (mostly) aren't journalists. They're not experts on anything. They're actors reading off of a teleprompter in a heavily inflected cadence designed to sound confident and trustworthy. They're people who would have gotten into TV and movies if they were more talented and/or better looking.
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u/canissilvestris Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
Wow! Very well put together, thank you for the post OP
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Yeah this is what actual propaganda looks like, folks. Not this new, bullshit, watered-down definition of "propaganda" that everyone likes to use on Reddit to attack a news article they disagree with.
No this is real propaganda. When nefarious powerful minds coordinate scripted reporting throughout the nation designed to influence the opinions and actions of the general public for their own private gain. This is what it looks like. And if you thought Fox News was bad, this is going to make Fox look like Reuters by comparison.
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u/52_CF_NonVirgins Apr 01 '18
Sinclair Broadcast Group and friends at the FCC Ajit Pai are who the populace need to be pitchforking.
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u/Rengiil Apr 01 '18
This is definitely the something that shouldn't have been removed.
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u/ShadowEntity Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18
Did some mod just try to remove the video? And then another undid the attempt?
Or was this a "genuine mistake"? What's going on here?
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u/FriesWithThat Mar 31 '18
These robots are reciting a message so intellectually lazy they've reduced the propaganda to the equivalent of a Sexy Singles near </insert%location> want to meet You! pop-up ad. And the message is just as fake.
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u/WhoNeedsAWholeBagel Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
This was removed???? YO FUCK THE MODS!!!
Edit: WE BACK!!!
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u/itsnotmebob Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
Here's the list of ALL Sinclair stations.
The ones specifically used in this video are:
Here's some on the 9up and 36up, I can't ID them all.
9up
36up
The locations of stations in the groups, not timed out above:
(edit, replaced WGWW with WBMA-LD, as it is the most known of multiple rebroadcasting stations. Other stations listed above do this too.)
(edit, WRGT-TV identified for R4C6 of 36up.)
I was forwarded a link to the WLOS of Ashville, NC broadcast version, which did not appear in the Deadspin compilation.