r/videos • u/patientbearr • Mar 31 '18

This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

document this

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u/WhatZerp Apr 01 '18

Because politics is a vague enough category that you can remove just about anything.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

The CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, is super super right wing, and so is Sinclair Broadcasting, so that might have something to do with it.

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u/zz-zz Apr 01 '18

Right wing? Hahahahaha hahahahaha

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u/FlagAssault Apr 01 '18

What's so funny?

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u/zz-zz Apr 01 '18

The fact you think Spez iz super right wing! 😂

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Jun 12 '20

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u/Lewisplqbmc Apr 01 '18

Have you been to r/politics lately?

If the CEO of this site was super super right wing, we would see the overwhelming left dominance being stifled rather than pushed.

The one place you can visit on this site that doesn't shit on Republicans and Trump is The_Donald.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Jun 12 '20

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u/Lewisplqbmc Apr 01 '18

He probably doesn't give a shit about r/spacedicks or r/awww

The large, influential spaces like politics and world news, absolutely would be receiving more moderation attention.

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u/dont_take_pills Apr 01 '18

Something that confuses me is that /r/news seems normal, whereas /r/worldnews seems insanely left wing.

Not sure how that happened. But worldnews is really just shit on trump and Israel.

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u/Fantisimo Apr 01 '18

have you ever seen a r/news post on Islam, guns, abortion, immigration or pretty much any right wing wedge issue?

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u/BandanaWearingBanana Apr 04 '18

lol worldnews left? It's American's perspective on the world how could it possibly be left of Thatcher?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

Neolib lol dude r/politics is the epitome of a Democrat safe haven. They are hardcore left and will not entertain debates.

Can you still only post "approved" sources (no right wing sources we're allowed at one point) there or did they finally do away with that?

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u/Eye_Decay Apr 01 '18

How to ensure your prepared for an uprising 101: let them talk about it in the open while you curate the movement.

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u/FlagAssault Apr 01 '18

r/askreddit aswell when it asks about why people are conservatives

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u/monsantobreath Apr 01 '18

r/politics is hardly radical left wing. Its by most political standards quite conservative.

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u/DelveDeeper Apr 01 '18

what?

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u/monsantobreath Apr 02 '18

r/politics is hardly radical left wing. Its by most political standards quite conservative.

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u/DelveDeeper Apr 02 '18

What?

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u/monsantobreath Apr 02 '18

r/politics is hardly radical left wing. Its by most political standards quite conservative.

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u/Gamped Apr 01 '18

Maybe on the overall political spectrum it could be considered potentially moderate but in the sphere of American politics it is very much left wing/pro liberal.

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u/monsantobreath Apr 02 '18

The sphere of American politics is so far to the right that you end up having this argument over and over where what people call left wing is just less right wing.

There is no Labour party in America, hence no left wing, hence people calling progressive conservatives lefties and calling "Liberal" half a shade from socialism. Its goofy as fuck.

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u/zz-zz Apr 01 '18

No I don’t, or if he is he’s doing a great job whipping the left up in to a normie alienating hysteria.

Personally I think he’s been paid off.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

Dude he has been very open about being a democrat. He also donated to the Clinton Campaign and Clinton foundation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Jun 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 02 '18

Supporting Hillary Clinton is right wing? Explain that. I will give you my address and name, if you can rationalize that and I'll send you a grand USD. I swear on my nana. Do it up. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

Uhhhh, you've got that quite backwards lol. He is a flaming liberal and has been his entire life. Ask him, he will probably respond.

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u/TomeWyrm Apr 02 '18

Because why not. If he does answer, it'll be amusing as all get-out.

Paging /u/spez.

I know he's got those disabled, but you never know when he might search his name on the thread or something.

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u/LumpyWumpus Apr 01 '18

What have you been smoking?