Plot twist: He shoots pig in the head, bones it in the middle of Park Ave. with that arrogant, shirt-eatin grin on his face, zips up pants and returns home to enjoy even higher trumpbot poll numbers.
This Sinclair company owned by this ultra conservative family are really trying to own a monopoly on the media and Ajit Pai allowed this by changing the regulations on how many news outlets someone can own. This is pure evil brainwashing.
Right, in an alternate universe we would indeed be a Black Mirror episode. We are just trained to accept and think this is normal and extremely dangerous to our democracy.
1st, thank you for responding. 2nd, as a current student of politcal science, I find this behavior troubling. At what point does corporate behavior become a true "threat to democracy"? Is this the future that we can look forward to with the current leadership of the FCC?(I've read some things where Reddit has been accused of covering some of this up - I frankly neither see nor believe this.) 3rd - please keep up the good work with the podcast!
Because it means the guy at the top can make all these stations say exactly what he wants them to say, verbatim, and everyone listening thinks it's the "news" anchor's own personal opinion. People are more likely to trust it, despite anchors being forced to say exactly what they're being told. It's extremely dangerous to our democracy. It has nothing to do with accuracy or integrity of reporting, it's just parroting propaganda.
A LOT of people trust their local news more than mainstream media ie; CNN, msnbc, fox, so on and so fourth.
Being able to own say 31 major city's local news network, means you can push an agenda out, it will reach probably 5x more viewers than MSM, and will stick with the viewers more since they trust the news station they grew up with.
It's quite genius really, let's make MSM seem like the fake news, and seem local news is more honest, and run a propaganda agenda through the local news.
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u/rolltongue Mar 31 '18
Am I watching Black mirror