“You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.”
Thanks, CE.
I had to look up the whole writing, and though some of it went over my head, I am including a link to the , what I suppose was a public speech(?). But if you have the patience for it, you will again understand why CS Lewis is considered a great genius.
Enjoy. https://screwtapeblogs.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/screwtape-proposes-a-toast/
I think I should add a note to this piece of writing. It threw me for a while. I’m just a stupid science major. But CS Lewis’ “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” gives real insight in to our current society
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is a follow-up to his very popular Screwtape Letters. It is among the most creative pieces of fiction in the last century.
Screwtape is a demon who schemes to bring more souls into Hell. But Screwtape’s plans often backfire, particularly when intended victims realize someone is playing on their weaknesses. Once they recognize temptation, they find it easier to resist.
Often frustrated, Screwtape responds to defeat with new strategems and an eager pursuit after another sou
This particular Video is an Editorial (and presented that way) by Sinclair Broadcasting over all the stations they own. They are basically conservative in their day to day operations and one, of just few media companies to lean to the Right.
Now do any of you question why P45 talks to 50 million of us on his twitter daily?
And they stop covering his twitters when he just gives progress reports. They jump right back in when he “wars” with a particular person. So he has to keep doing that from time to time. B/c MSM reports those tweets and re-focuses people toward them again. Strategy.
Gleichschaltung: the act, process, or policy of achieving rigid and total coordination and uniformity (as in politics, culture, communication) by forcibly repressing or eliminating independence and freedom of thought, action, or expression : forced reduction to a common level : forced standardization or assimilation.
In this vein, I would like to interject something I just read and wonder if anyone else has seen this. Have I been hoodwinked on this (because I sort of believe the screenshots are real). I remember Sharyk Atkisson saying to suspect every headline you see because everyone has an agenda. If the author’s agenda is to make me feel uncomfortable then I fell for it. . . . . . https://freedomoutpost.com/stunning-email-indicate-parkland-shooting-just-another-false-flag-designed-take-guns/
So is your question whether the story is fake news?
according to Tracy Beanz, it is in fact a long process and this is the officer she talked to about her march next week.
The guy who posted this…yig..something…also said WaPo followed up by showing a Parks application that has a more recent date, meant, of course, to “debunk” this story.
But apparently you need more than one application, so the Parks one that WaPo posted is probably real, and the MPD one which is also needed is presumably real too. Of course WaPo wouldn’t ever bother to share that two apps are needed, because: fake news.
Someone should FOIA the documents. This seems important enough.
Talk about paid actors, they sure did put on a show for their viewers didn’t they? My goodness, some of the dire expressions on at least half of them, it’s as if they’re talking about a yuuge storm to hit the whole country all at once at any minute. Hide people, HIDE! But don’t forget your tv and their channel to stay tuned.
This was exceptionally well made though with a good deal of time put into it. Kudos to that person and thank you. We should all send this to everyone we know and then some.
Be well,
Ma’iingankwe
We elect electors who vote for the POTUS so that technically might make the United States not a true democracy. We also don’t allow children and convicted felons to vote so without allowing all the “people” a vote, I guess we’ll never be a true democracy. Well, not me! I will continue to refer to my country of the United States as a republic and a democracy. People that claim the USA is not a democracy are nit pickers and trivia fanatics. Not all democracies are republics but all republics are democracies.
Chilling… Stepford Wives and the Borg collective rolled up into one giant creepfest. If this isn’t a strong incentive to yank the plug on your cable, I don’t know what is.
It’s a local commercial/psa being delivered by local talent. Sinclair broadcasting owns all the stations in that video. There is nothing sinister here.
“There is nothing sinister” about the media whining about being called Fake News? Especially when they all read from the same lame script and pretend to care about TRUTH and their local community. Lying newsreaders apparently unaware that we see right through them.
The point is that there is nothing “local” about the news. It is nothing but the same message read out loud on every channel, and that message is written by corporate headquarters and not your local “journalists.”
“Too much information is dangerous for our democracy” ~ Obombie,
Rose Garden, May 10, 2010 after summit with GooGhoul Schmidt
Obombie was so proud of this that he read it from teleprompter scripts at three college commencement speeches that following week. New AlGoreRythums forced Truth off the internet. A dozen boxcutters did not vaporize WTC-1, 2, 6 & 7….we’ve been systematically lied to about everything. A good five minute summary on 9/11 >
“Best 9/11 Video Ever” at CorbettReport(.)com
Find and share Truth….it is your duty as an Earthling !?
And you don’t consider our Republic a democracy? Unless every citizen, including 12 year olds and criminals can vote, than maybe there isn’t a solitary ‘democracy” on the planet! Some folks on the left think illegal immigrants should be able to vote, so there’s another argument against the USA being a democracy. Republics like the USA are one form of democracy and you need to stop obsessing.
This is actually Sinclair Broadcasting. They own many different stations from ABC-FOX. They are much fairer to President Trump and this was their idea of a PSA warning about Fake News. I can guarantee whoever put this together is not who people are thinking.
It really embarrasses me that people on my side politically are so easy to get into a tizzy by these clickbait scam artists. Sinclair is the same outfit that runs the Sheryl Atkisson show. They have 40-years of conservative bona fides.
Having 40-yrs of (fill-in-the-blank) does not mean ‘they’ cannot change from this point forward. Although it is a thing many like to throw out there to establish their ‘bonafides’……..in actuality, actions STILL speak louder than words and said ‘bonafides’ can serve little more purpose than to be smoke and mirrors for those who follow without doing due diligence.
Look at those goobers.. Probably 99% of them have a degree in journalism – whose curriculum only requires one class – one semester of beginning math.. (If you are at UT you can substitute that one math requirement with a course in “African Diaspora Studies.”).
They are collegiate flunkies with disney world “degrees.” Dumb as a box of rocks..
And people actually watch and listen to them.. Dumb as a box of rocks..
Yep…how can you ask intelligent questions in an interview if you have no courses in economics or world history, etc? They, just like the Hollywood types, can read from a script written by others and only with few exception (hi Janes Wood!) are capable of critical thinking.
We pledge obedience to the Prattle
of the United Stations of Babelmedia
and to the Globalism which T.H.E.Y. demand,
one Opinion under G11N, indivisible,
with coercion and social justice for all.
“Up next, you won’t believe where firefighters found this local cat ‘hanging out’. Plus, the latest footage of tree damage from Bomb Cyclone Arctic Superstorm Amadeus. And don’t miss the moment we shove cameras into the face of a grieving mother. Oh, and car crashes! Lots of them!”
Moral lecturing from the people doling out the daily dose of panem et circenses…
“Sheryl Sandberg is the future ex-COO of Facebook, and while that sounds like enough of a resume to speak on women in the workplace, note that her advice on how to get ahead appears in Time Magazine. Oh, you thought that Sandberg’s book is news worthy in itself, how could you not do a story on this magnificence? No, this is a setup, the Time Magazine demo is never going to be COO of anything, as evidenced by the fact that they read Time Magazine. Much more importantly, they are not raising daughters who are going to be COO of anything. So why is this here?
The first level breakdown is that this is what Time readers want, they want a warm glow and to be reassured that the reason they’re stuck living in Central Time is sexism. This demo likes to see a smart, pretty woman succeed in a man’s world, as long as “pretty” isn’t too pretty but “wearing a great outfit” and that man’s world isn’t overly manly, like IBM or General Dynamics, yawn, but an aspirational, Aeron chair “creative” place that doesn’t involve calculus or yelling, somewhere they suspect they could have worked had it not been for sexism and biological clocks. We all know Pinterest is for idiots. Hence Facebook.”
Not at all. These are all stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, which leans conservative. It is just more like a promo than anything else. Local talent is delivering it because you know your local anchors. You don’t know the Sinclair anchor in Baltimore, Washington or Columbus.
Don’t let these clickbait scam artists get you guys all into a tizzy. You guys are smarter than that!
I am completely awake. This is just a corporate TV commercial and nothing more. Sinclair stations all use the same theme music for their news, the same graphics, use the same equipment, and have the same format for their news. Corporate standardization and nothing more.
Sinclair Broadcasting is the poster boy for why the FCC once limited the number of TV stations one owner could operate. They should adopt the moniker “Watch the Hive at Five”!
These are all local TV stations owned and/or affiliated with Sinclair Broadcasting (symbol SBGI). Sinclair is controlled by a guy named David Smith in Baltimore who is a hard right conservative Trump supporter. Smith requires that occasionally his on-air talent (read employees) read a script written by a corporate producer. Understand that virtually every word ever said by any of your local news anchors was written and scripted by an anonymous producer in the local newsroom. Sorry, but no matter that you believe you have developed a fake connection with the 6 o’clock female anchor or the morning show weatherman, it’s all a script and the on-air talent are just acting.
This video seems shocking because it shows 20 or so different news people saying the same words but that’s how a script works. It is no more ominous that a single talent, say Rachel Maddow or David Muir reading a script to the whole country at once rather than 20 actors reading the same words to the country but just one market at a time. Not mind control. Just conservatives trying to counter-balance some of the ubiquitous left-wing propaganda.
A better example would be David Muir doing a promo for the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, and George Stephanopoulos using the same script to do a promo for the ABC affiliate in Cleveland.
Most of the time you guys are okay, but every now and then I have to shake my head at what Lemmings people are.
March For Our Lives Was Prepared Several Months Before The Parkland Shooting:
In reference to your inquiry concerning the March For Our Lives Demonstration, here in the District of Columbia on March 24, 2018. MPD received a permit application several months prior to the actual event, and there was several months of planning for this large event.
If your are requesting additional information reference this event, please follow the below steps to file your Freedom of Information Act request…
Ole Dammegard exposed this smoking gun Fri 3/30/2018 on Jason Goodman’sYou Tube
Channel, Crowd Source the truth. I saw the whole video. It had been taken down by You Tube that very night & Jason has been suspended from You Tube for months someone posted on the last video he has up. Haven’t heard fm Jason.
They think Capitol City is us!!
The fact they think it is us that is the danger to democracy, is why we can’t have nice things. (and why I suspect I take blood pressure meds?)
Geez, people! There’s no conspiracy here. Sinclair media owns all of those stations. They wrote the script and are just having it delivered locally by names and faces people know. All big companies do this and there is really nothing wrong with it. These are just basically commercials being delivered by local talent. No different than Kroger using Johnny Bench as their spokesman in Cincinnati, and Archie Griffin in Columbus.
The surprise and shock from people serves to illustrate is how unaware the public-at-large is regarding the scope of scripted direct messaging used by media affiliates to sway opinion. Whether the source is conservative, or liberal, matters not: the example presented is real. We must always question what we see and are presented.
I’d like to follow up with something that, I think, Rush said a long time ago: all news is a product. The media is always looking to sell their product. Never forget that.
I generally agree with you but I don’t agree that this is one of those instances. Sinclair owns all of those TV stations and there is a message they wanted to get out to their viewers, to be careful about fake news. It’s somewhere along the lines of a promo, a PSA or an editorial.
Having a Sinclair station in Columbus using the same promo as a Sinclair station in Seattle is completely different from when the mainstream national media gets its marching orders and at 4 a.m. and you hear the same thing on the all the national news outlets. Context, folks!
Back in 2000, Rush Limbaugh noticed everyone in the MSM was parroting the word GRAVITAS: “…this happened within a day of President Bush selecting Dick Cheney to be his vice presidential running mate. You’re going to hear Al Hunt, Juan Williams, Claire Shipman, Steve Roberts, Vic Fazio, Jeff Greenfield, Jonathan Alter, former Senator Bob Kerrey, Margaret Carlson, Mike McCurry, Sam Donaldson, Eleanor Clift, Walter Isaacson, Mark Shields, Judy Woodruff, and Sam Donaldson — and none of these are repeated.” https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/11/30/gravitas_montage_explains_it_all/
In August of 2015 it was TRUMP (of course) and the media chorus was “SPECIFICS!”
Notvic and Tempo took great pains to check and report the ownership of each of the stations in the video. I didn’t even notice whether they were identified!
So, the moral is that you only think you are receiving news written locally. It is actually programmed and written centrally. Your local reporters are just repeaters.
Ever notice that if you flip between national media during national news that they are covering the same stories at the same times in the broadcast? This is due to the keen professionalism and independence of the news directors. Great minds think alike sort of thing.
In other news: The infinite number of monkeys have just completed typing the works of Shakespeare .
Whether you walk into a Walmart in Cincinnati or Sioux Falls, they generally all look the same. That’s all that’s going on here. Corporate standardization and efficiency practices. Instead of 200 people riding out different promos, they have one person doing it and having it air on 200 stations. No big deal.
Can you imagine how expensive it would be for each Walmart to have a unique Interior Design? It’s economies of scale, that’s all.
This is completely different than from when you hear the national media all mimicking the same Democrat talking points.
WOW!!! I don’t watch any local news or ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, or CNN. I watch FoxNews in the evening, other than that, my TV is not on during the day and other shows I DVR! I get my news from Sundance, and some YouTubers, Dustin Nemos, Lionel Nation, Praying Medic, and Citizen’s Investiagtion Report and of course Q!! I live in MA so the local news is dripping with liberal crap!!
Indeed. And what drives me crazy is when democratic is used vs. democrat.
Example.
It is a Democrat Party NOT democratic party
It is Democrat candidate NOT democratic candidate.
And people’s english is never corrected.
The takeaways from this video are that there is no journalism, just corporate messaging, and that these outlets claim the mantle of impartiality and truth when they are just regurgitating a predigested script from corporate central headquarters.
You’re nitpicking. Unless every single citizen, and non citizens according to the left, are allowed a vote than how could any country on God’s green Earth ever be a true democracy? The United States is a Republic, yes, but a republic is one form of a democracy. I guess “government of the people, by the people and for the people” isn’t a democracy after all.
On one hand, it is revealing stuff for those people who don’t seem to truly “get it” that broadcast news is a joke. On the other hand, this is all Sinclair Media – all Fox affiliates. It is being presented on sites from Reddit to HuffPo as proof that conservative news is all fake. So, while regular Treepers understand the video on a deeper level, it’s still just leftist propaganda for the low-info voters. Still an effort to discourage conservative thought.
I will repeat what I wrote above because you seem to get it.
Whether you walk into a Walmart in Cincinnati or Sioux Falls, they generally all look the same. That’s all that’s going on here. Corporate standardization and economies of scale. Instead of 200 people at each individual station writing out different promos, they have one person doing it and having it air on 200 stations. No big deal.
Can you imagine how expensive it would be for each Walmart to have a unique Interior Design? It’s economies of scale, that’s all.
This is completely different than from when you hear the national media all mimicking the same Democrat talking points like when they all had the same fetish about Trump’s convention speech being “dark”.
This reminds me of the scene in the book A Wrinkle In Time where Calvin, Meg and Charles Wallace go down to the town.and notice all the houses look alike and the children are all skipping rope and bouncing balls in exactly the same rhythm.
I pointed out to my wife the other day?
“What happened to TRUMP’S company, Cambridge Analytica, somehow gathering data and doing some kind of scurrilous targeting of people to win the election?”
That story line disappeared really quickly, once they figured out it would paint the Dems far worse than Trump.
What happened to “Trump wants to start a war with North Korea?” Well?? If we were carelessly, hopelessly careening to war with NK, would it not still be in the news?
The Facebook Ad Bot story: it was insinuated that this is how Trump got Russia to swing the election for us. <–Again, I told my wife: once they dig into this, they will find out it was 90% Dems doing this fake ad-bot thing. Well, that story disappeared pretty quickly.
And no one is following up, saying, "Hey, didn't all of the MSM experts and reporters just say, a month ago, that we were on the brink of disaster due to Trump, or that y'all had finally found a genuine scandal on Trump to report? What happened to that story?!"
They throw out a rumor of an unsubstantiated fear, then simply move on to the next.
On Facebook, we watch our friends and family get strung along. They genuinely believe every day is some new terrible transgression of Constitutional Governance by Trump. If you ask for a specific, they scatter-shot the next accusation.
I trolled some friends by facebook-posting something about Dems and Facebook contacts. THey said, "why didn't you say anything about Republicans doing that?" I responded that there was no need for me to, since A. It had already been in the news, and B. the friend/commenter just took care of that for me, per plan, just as he is supposed to do. <–this ticked this guy off pretty good.
I was just thinking about this topic this morning. Most people do not have the time to research things individually. Or even if they do, they don’t know where to turn.
We need a concise document that describes and summarizes the lies of the mainstream media as it pertains to the FBI DOJ Trump Russia issue. Something that we can distribute via email, post on Facebook, text, or, whatever medium each prefers.
We need to do our part to raise the awareness of a wider audience. So that when the events we expect unfold, more people will understand and accept the 180° turn from what they’ve heard or read for months. Prepping them first will achieve the maximum mileage in exposing the bias and ulterior motives of the MSM.
Something like one of Sundance’s summaries or videos that is dumbed down a bit into easy to digest bullet points.
To cover these general themes:
1) MSM has been lying to you.
2) Here’s what really happened and here are the players.
3) Here is what will likely happen next.
4) Consider your news sources’ motives next time you read or view a story. Insist on facts. Learn to differentiate them from insinuation and innuendo.
5) Don’t get fooled again.
All of those stations are owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is owned and operated by conservatives. Please do a little research on this. You’ve started a circular firing squad.
This is being circulated by the left. I guess they managed to hit a “winning” piece of propaganda to take out a group they hate such as Sinclair.
As an aside, none of the Sinclair owned stations in my area are pro-Trump, but they do all report on the exact same “news”, including local stuff from China that has no relevance to anything here.
Nope. Not “being circulated by the Left.”
CNN has a similar stupid commercial version about apples and bananas.
First saw this “We are not Fake News” spiel on a local newscast about a week ago. Looked at nephew who happened to be there and we both broke out laughing and laughing. Like we’re supposed to believe them because they sounded so sincere. Little did we know that they were indeed reading from a script and didn’t mean a word of it. What is most annoying is them pretending to be unbiased and truthful as they segue way into the next report on Stormy D. and promote the same progressive drivel as the other local TV newsrooms. Realizing that they were ordered to read that “Public Service Announcement” from corporate is just icing on the cake. Still laughing.
This would be even funnier is it weren’t so alarming….TALKING HEADS… total mind control of the masses…George Orwell warned us of BIG BROTHER and he is among us now….OH and by the way….we are not a Democracy….we are a REPUBLIC….it says so in the Pledge of Allegiance….
Sundance, I made clear above that I do not agree with you, even though I do agree with your take 90% of the time.
Let’s hear what geotus says:
So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.
Late follow up. 4/4/18
So George Neumayr in the American Spectator has written an article about Sinclair being dumped on by the MSM for having its station anchors read the company’s mission statement. It appears that some folks upthread here were correct in insisting this video collage from Sinclair-owned stations was nothing troubling in and of itself. Here’s the article: https://spectator.org/the-herd-media-stampedes-sinclair/
Note – I was one of those who commented against this, believing it to be something more sinister. I was wrong.
🤔.@Comey doesn't show up for today's scheduled interview on Fox News with Brett Baier. Go figure... 49 minutes ago
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I shall quote CS Lewis
“You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.”
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Thanks, CE.
I had to look up the whole writing, and though some of it went over my head, I am including a link to the , what I suppose was a public speech(?). But if you have the patience for it, you will again understand why CS Lewis is considered a great genius.
Enjoy.
https://screwtapeblogs.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/screwtape-proposes-a-toast/
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I think I should add a note to this piece of writing. It threw me for a while. I’m just a stupid science major. But CS Lewis’ “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” gives real insight in to our current society
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” is a follow-up to his very popular Screwtape Letters. It is among the most creative pieces of fiction in the last century.
Screwtape is a demon who schemes to bring more souls into Hell. But Screwtape’s plans often backfire, particularly when intended victims realize someone is playing on their weaknesses. Once they recognize temptation, they find it easier to resist.
Often frustrated, Screwtape responds to defeat with new strategems and an eager pursuit after another sou
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I have a very worn copy upon my shelf. A must read!
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Just remember one very important item –
This particular Video is an Editorial (and presented that way) by Sinclair Broadcasting over all the stations they own. They are basically conservative in their day to day operations and one, of just few media companies to lean to the Right.
They are opposed by these Media giants on the Left: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
– 6 Media companies own 90% of all American Media.
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Now do any of you question why P45 talks to 50 million of us on his twitter daily?
And they stop covering his twitters when he just gives progress reports. They jump right back in when he “wars” with a particular person. So he has to keep doing that from time to time. B/c MSM reports those tweets and re-focuses people toward them again. Strategy.
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Great point NC Patriot!
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Gleichschaltung: the act, process, or policy of achieving rigid and total coordination and uniformity (as in politics, culture, communication) by forcibly repressing or eliminating independence and freedom of thought, action, or expression : forced reduction to a common level : forced standardization or assimilation.
All those talking heads, are now it makes sense.
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and now makes sense
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In this vein, I would like to interject something I just read and wonder if anyone else has seen this. Have I been hoodwinked on this (because I sort of believe the screenshots are real). I remember Sharyk Atkisson saying to suspect every headline you see because everyone has an agenda. If the author’s agenda is to make me feel uncomfortable then I fell for it. . . . . . https://freedomoutpost.com/stunning-email-indicate-parkland-shooting-just-another-false-flag-designed-take-guns/
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So is your question whether the story is fake news?
according to Tracy Beanz, it is in fact a long process and this is the officer she talked to about her march next week.
The guy who posted this…yig..something…also said WaPo followed up by showing a Parks application that has a more recent date, meant, of course, to “debunk” this story.
But apparently you need more than one application, so the Parks one that WaPo posted is probably real, and the MPD one which is also needed is presumably real too. Of course WaPo wouldn’t ever bother to share that two apps are needed, because: fake news.
Someone should FOIA the documents. This seems important enough.
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Talk about paid actors, they sure did put on a show for their viewers didn’t they? My goodness, some of the dire expressions on at least half of them, it’s as if they’re talking about a yuuge storm to hit the whole country all at once at any minute. Hide people, HIDE! But don’t forget your tv and their channel to stay tuned.
This was exceptionally well made though with a good deal of time put into it. Kudos to that person and thank you. We should all send this to everyone we know and then some.
Be well,
Ma’iingankwe
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i saw it first on IG and i was trying to figure out how to share it then i came here this morning and its here.
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I want NAMES and how much they were bribed….if the MSM won’t cover it, well we know how to by-pass that, don’t we.
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They were “bribed” with their paychecks.
These people are the mouthpieces for the people who want to take your guns away. Never forget that.
More PT, more range time.
Many thanks for posting this remarkable and revealing video. P.S., treehousers know this, but this isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic.
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We elect electors who vote for the POTUS so that technically might make the United States not a true democracy. We also don’t allow children and convicted felons to vote so without allowing all the “people” a vote, I guess we’ll never be a true democracy. Well, not me! I will continue to refer to my country of the United States as a republic and a democracy. People that claim the USA is not a democracy are nit pickers and trivia fanatics. Not all democracies are republics but all republics are democracies.
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They put on a very good show indeed ma’iingankwe.
I see I have not missed a thing by not watching any kind of msm broadcast news in the last 15 years.
Mind control is the perfect word, a waste of time is another.
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Wow, just wow! Talk about Operation Mockingbird out there for all to see . . .
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Chilling… Stepford Wives and the Borg collective rolled up into one giant creepfest. If this isn’t a strong incentive to yank the plug on your cable, I don’t know what is.
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brilliant, walther
talk ’bout ‘cher picture and them thousand words …
there ya go, raht there
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This is extremely dangerous… to our democracy.
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Extremely.
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No.
It’s a local commercial/psa being delivered by local talent. Sinclair broadcasting owns all the stations in that video. There is nothing sinister here.
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“There is nothing sinister” about the media whining about being called Fake News? Especially when they all read from the same lame script and pretend to care about TRUTH and their local community. Lying newsreaders apparently unaware that we see right through them.
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The point is that there is nothing “local” about the news. It is nothing but the same message read out loud on every channel, and that message is written by corporate headquarters and not your local “journalists.”
See the problem? It’s centralized propoganda.
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“Too much information is dangerous for our democracy” ~ Obombie,
Rose Garden, May 10, 2010 after summit with GooGhoul Schmidt
Obombie was so proud of this that he read it from teleprompter scripts at three college commencement speeches that following week. New AlGoreRythums forced Truth off the internet. A dozen boxcutters did not vaporize WTC-1, 2, 6 & 7….we’ve been systematically lied to about everything. A good five minute summary on 9/11 >
“Best 9/11 Video Ever” at CorbettReport(.)com
Find and share Truth….it is your duty as an Earthling !?
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I can’t seem to find that quote by Obama. I’ve tried to google it in different ways. If it exists, could you share a link?
Much appreciated.
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Not quite the same – but this is what I found.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/11/obama-swipes-media-questions-accuracy-content-environment.html
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It would be nickcole11 except the U.S. is a representative republic.
I know you know that but these guys don’t.
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And you don’t consider our Republic a democracy? Unless every citizen, including 12 year olds and criminals can vote, than maybe there isn’t a solitary ‘democracy” on the planet! Some folks on the left think illegal immigrants should be able to vote, so there’s another argument against the USA being a democracy. Republics like the USA are one form of democracy and you need to stop obsessing.
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No I don’t consider our Republic a democracy.
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Love Our President!!
TY, walther!
God Bless!
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& so……we are going to replace their fake news with OUR version.
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But you can BELIEVE OUR version.
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This is actually Sinclair Broadcasting. They own many different stations from ABC-FOX. They are much fairer to President Trump and this was their idea of a PSA warning about Fake News. I can guarantee whoever put this together is not who people are thinking.
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The phrase “controlled position” just gained a whole new meaning.
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*Opposition
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It really embarrasses me that people on my side politically are so easy to get into a tizzy by these clickbait scam artists. Sinclair is the same outfit that runs the Sheryl Atkisson show. They have 40-years of conservative bona fides.
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Having 40-yrs of (fill-in-the-blank) does not mean ‘they’ cannot change from this point forward. Although it is a thing many like to throw out there to establish their ‘bonafides’……..in actuality, actions STILL speak louder than words and said ‘bonafides’ can serve little more purpose than to be smoke and mirrors for those who follow without doing due diligence.
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St, Claire, St. Clair, Sinclair…. pops up in fictional novels and Holy Grail debate as the genealogical bloodline from Mary and Jesus . Hmmmmmmm.
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Everything on TV is fake.. Think..
Look at those goobers.. Probably 99% of them have a degree in journalism – whose curriculum only requires one class – one semester of beginning math.. (If you are at UT you can substitute that one math requirement with a course in “African Diaspora Studies.”).
They are collegiate flunkies with disney world “degrees.” Dumb as a box of rocks..
And people actually watch and listen to them.. Dumb as a box of rocks..
Stiv Bator ‘opened my eyes’ about TV in 1982..
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Actung, Actung. The revolution will not be televised!
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Yep…how can you ask intelligent questions in an interview if you have no courses in economics or world history, etc? They, just like the Hollywood types, can read from a script written by others and only with few exception (hi Janes Wood!) are capable of critical thinking.
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Love James Woods!
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We pledge obedience to the Prattle
of the United Stations of Babelmedia
and to the Globalism which T.H.E.Y. demand,
one Opinion under G11N, indivisible,
with coercion and social justice for all.
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Brilliant. And unfortunately too real.
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Ye gads, even my middle of nowhere town in Iowa local news made the clip.
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“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy…
“Up next, you won’t believe where firefighters found this local cat ‘hanging out’. Plus, the latest footage of tree damage from Bomb Cyclone Arctic Superstorm Amadeus. And don’t miss the moment we shove cameras into the face of a grieving mother. Oh, and car crashes! Lots of them!”
Moral lecturing from the people doling out the daily dose of panem et circenses…
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TV deadens the inner core of my being…
Actually, I canceled cable tv about a decade ago. I haven’t missed a thing.
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Harry Lime,
My wife and I also cut the cable cord around the same time. And the world didn’t end.
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I know you’re lying, your lips are moving…
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“Sheryl Sandberg is the future ex-COO of Facebook, and while that sounds like enough of a resume to speak on women in the workplace, note that her advice on how to get ahead appears in Time Magazine. Oh, you thought that Sandberg’s book is news worthy in itself, how could you not do a story on this magnificence? No, this is a setup, the Time Magazine demo is never going to be COO of anything, as evidenced by the fact that they read Time Magazine. Much more importantly, they are not raising daughters who are going to be COO of anything. So why is this here?
The first level breakdown is that this is what Time readers want, they want a warm glow and to be reassured that the reason they’re stuck living in Central Time is sexism. This demo likes to see a smart, pretty woman succeed in a man’s world, as long as “pretty” isn’t too pretty but “wearing a great outfit” and that man’s world isn’t overly manly, like IBM or General Dynamics, yawn, but an aspirational, Aeron chair “creative” place that doesn’t involve calculus or yelling, somewhere they suspect they could have worked had it not been for sexism and biological clocks. We all know Pinterest is for idiots. Hence Facebook.”
Genius culture blogging from a psychiatrist…
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_because_shes_suc.html#more
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Chilling!
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Not at all. These are all stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, which leans conservative. It is just more like a promo than anything else. Local talent is delivering it because you know your local anchors. You don’t know the Sinclair anchor in Baltimore, Washington or Columbus.
Don’t let these clickbait scam artists get you guys all into a tizzy. You guys are smarter than that!
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You are not yet awake.
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I am completely awake. This is just a corporate TV commercial and nothing more. Sinclair stations all use the same theme music for their news, the same graphics, use the same equipment, and have the same format for their news. Corporate standardization and nothing more.
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Sinclair Broadcasting is the poster boy for why the FCC once limited the number of TV stations one owner could operate. They should adopt the moniker “Watch the Hive at Five”!
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These are all local TV stations owned and/or affiliated with Sinclair Broadcasting (symbol SBGI). Sinclair is controlled by a guy named David Smith in Baltimore who is a hard right conservative Trump supporter. Smith requires that occasionally his on-air talent (read employees) read a script written by a corporate producer. Understand that virtually every word ever said by any of your local news anchors was written and scripted by an anonymous producer in the local newsroom. Sorry, but no matter that you believe you have developed a fake connection with the 6 o’clock female anchor or the morning show weatherman, it’s all a script and the on-air talent are just acting.
This video seems shocking because it shows 20 or so different news people saying the same words but that’s how a script works. It is no more ominous that a single talent, say Rachel Maddow or David Muir reading a script to the whole country at once rather than 20 actors reading the same words to the country but just one market at a time. Not mind control. Just conservatives trying to counter-balance some of the ubiquitous left-wing propaganda.
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A better example would be David Muir doing a promo for the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, and George Stephanopoulos using the same script to do a promo for the ABC affiliate in Cleveland.
Most of the time you guys are okay, but every now and then I have to shake my head at what Lemmings people are.
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Lemmings believe the media talking heads telling people that they care about THE TRUTH. Sinclair-owned or not, they ALL slant Left.
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So if corporate makes people in all Home Depot stores read the same exact store closing announcement from a script, that’s propaganda?
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Yes
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Home Depot isn’t a news organization.
Corporate news is the problem, right or left.
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I thought we were a Republic?
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If you can keep it, Madam. Only if you can keep it.
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Oh very well played!
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Unfortunately we voluntarily gave it away when we allowed the unions to take over our schools. 😦
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We is a Republic. LOL! It’s just that a whole lot of people haven’t caught on to the idea yet. Give them a couple of centuries and they’ll get it.
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March For Our Lives Was Prepared Several Months Before The Parkland Shooting:
In reference to your inquiry concerning the March For Our Lives Demonstration, here in the District of Columbia on March 24, 2018. MPD received a permit application several months prior to the actual event, and there was several months of planning for this large event.
If your are requesting additional information reference this event, please follow the below steps to file your Freedom of Information Act request…
http://memoryholeblog.org/2018/03/30/dc-police-march-for-our-lives-planning-preceded-parkland-fl-shooting-by-several-months/
Strange indeed.
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Ole Dammegard exposed this smoking gun Fri 3/30/2018 on Jason Goodman’sYou Tube
Channel, Crowd Source the truth. I saw the whole video. It had been taken down by You Tube that very night & Jason has been suspended from You Tube for months someone posted on the last video he has up. Haven’t heard fm Jason.
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They think Capitol City is us!!
The fact they think it is us that is the danger to democracy, is why we can’t have nice things. (and why I suspect I take blood pressure meds?)
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Geez, people! There’s no conspiracy here. Sinclair media owns all of those stations. They wrote the script and are just having it delivered locally by names and faces people know. All big companies do this and there is really nothing wrong with it. These are just basically commercials being delivered by local talent. No different than Kroger using Johnny Bench as their spokesman in Cincinnati, and Archie Griffin in Columbus.
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The surprise and shock from people serves to illustrate is how unaware the public-at-large is regarding the scope of scripted direct messaging used by media affiliates to sway opinion. Whether the source is conservative, or liberal, matters not: the example presented is real. We must always question what we see and are presented.
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I’d like to follow up with something that, I think, Rush said a long time ago: all news is a product. The media is always looking to sell their product. Never forget that.
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I generally agree with you but I don’t agree that this is one of those instances. Sinclair owns all of those TV stations and there is a message they wanted to get out to their viewers, to be careful about fake news. It’s somewhere along the lines of a promo, a PSA or an editorial.
Having a Sinclair station in Columbus using the same promo as a Sinclair station in Seattle is completely different from when the mainstream national media gets its marching orders and at 4 a.m. and you hear the same thing on the all the national news outlets. Context, folks!
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Back in 2000, Rush Limbaugh noticed everyone in the MSM was parroting the word GRAVITAS: “…this happened within a day of President Bush selecting Dick Cheney to be his vice presidential running mate. You’re going to hear Al Hunt, Juan Williams, Claire Shipman, Steve Roberts, Vic Fazio, Jeff Greenfield, Jonathan Alter, former Senator Bob Kerrey, Margaret Carlson, Mike McCurry, Sam Donaldson, Eleanor Clift, Walter Isaacson, Mark Shields, Judy Woodruff, and Sam Donaldson — and none of these are repeated.”
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/11/30/gravitas_montage_explains_it_all/
In August of 2015 it was TRUMP (of course) and the media chorus was “SPECIFICS!”
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I remember this. It was one of Rush’s best riffs.
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Even CNN was skeptical about the Sinclair stunt back on March 7
“Sinclair’s new media-bashing promos rankle local anchors”
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/media/sinclair-broadcasting-promos-media-bashing/index.html
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Notvic and Tempo took great pains to check and report the ownership of each of the stations in the video. I didn’t even notice whether they were identified!
So, the moral is that you only think you are receiving news written locally. It is actually programmed and written centrally. Your local reporters are just repeaters.
Ever notice that if you flip between national media during national news that they are covering the same stories at the same times in the broadcast? This is due to the keen professionalism and independence of the news directors. Great minds think alike sort of thing.
In other news: The infinite number of monkeys have just completed typing the works of Shakespeare .
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Whether you walk into a Walmart in Cincinnati or Sioux Falls, they generally all look the same. That’s all that’s going on here. Corporate standardization and efficiency practices. Instead of 200 people riding out different promos, they have one person doing it and having it air on 200 stations. No big deal.
Can you imagine how expensive it would be for each Walmart to have a unique Interior Design? It’s economies of scale, that’s all.
This is completely different than from when you hear the national media all mimicking the same Democrat talking points.
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Why are you pushing this so hard, dude?
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Television’s first broadcast was in 1928 (I think). In the span of the lifetime of one human being look what it has become.
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They learned from the masters of manipulation.
The MSM is the Ministry of Truth.
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WOW!!! I don’t watch any local news or ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, or CNN. I watch FoxNews in the evening, other than that, my TV is not on during the day and other shows I DVR! I get my news from Sundance, and some YouTubers, Dustin Nemos, Lionel Nation, Praying Medic, and Citizen’s Investiagtion Report and of course Q!! I live in MA so the local news is dripping with liberal crap!!
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I would like to point out to all of them that we are a REPUBLIC, not a democracy
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Indeed. And what drives me crazy is when democratic is used vs. democrat.
Example.
It is a Democrat Party NOT democratic party
It is Democrat candidate NOT democratic candidate.
And people’s english is never corrected.
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Corrected???? By whom?
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We are a republic AND a democracy.
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Look into SecureDrop……..getting the narrative out to them all.
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Takes my breath away and turns my stomach. ‘They’ apparently are independent journalism.
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The takeaways from this video are that there is no journalism, just corporate messaging, and that these outlets claim the mantle of impartiality and truth when they are just regurgitating a predigested script from corporate central headquarters.
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Lmao wow what a disgrace the si called news is
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We do not have a Democracy. We have a representative Republic.
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You’re nitpicking. Unless every single citizen, and non citizens according to the left, are allowed a vote than how could any country on God’s green Earth ever be a true democracy? The United States is a Republic, yes, but a republic is one form of a democracy. I guess “government of the people, by the people and for the people” isn’t a democracy after all.
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On one hand, it is revealing stuff for those people who don’t seem to truly “get it” that broadcast news is a joke. On the other hand, this is all Sinclair Media – all Fox affiliates. It is being presented on sites from Reddit to HuffPo as proof that conservative news is all fake. So, while regular Treepers understand the video on a deeper level, it’s still just leftist propaganda for the low-info voters. Still an effort to discourage conservative thought.
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I will repeat what I wrote above because you seem to get it.
Whether you walk into a Walmart in Cincinnati or Sioux Falls, they generally all look the same. That’s all that’s going on here. Corporate standardization and economies of scale. Instead of 200 people at each individual station writing out different promos, they have one person doing it and having it air on 200 stations. No big deal.
Can you imagine how expensive it would be for each Walmart to have a unique Interior Design? It’s economies of scale, that’s all.
This is completely different than from when you hear the national media all mimicking the same Democrat talking points like when they all had the same fetish about Trump’s convention speech being “dark”.
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This reminds me of the scene in the book A Wrinkle In Time where Calvin, Meg and Charles Wallace go down to the town.and notice all the houses look alike and the children are all skipping rope and bouncing balls in exactly the same rhythm.
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I pointed out to my wife the other day?
“What happened to TRUMP’S company, Cambridge Analytica, somehow gathering data and doing some kind of scurrilous targeting of people to win the election?”
That story line disappeared really quickly, once they figured out it would paint the Dems far worse than Trump.
What happened to “Trump wants to start a war with North Korea?” Well?? If we were carelessly, hopelessly careening to war with NK, would it not still be in the news?
The Facebook Ad Bot story: it was insinuated that this is how Trump got Russia to swing the election for us. <–Again, I told my wife: once they dig into this, they will find out it was 90% Dems doing this fake ad-bot thing. Well, that story disappeared pretty quickly.
And no one is following up, saying, "Hey, didn't all of the MSM experts and reporters just say, a month ago, that we were on the brink of disaster due to Trump, or that y'all had finally found a genuine scandal on Trump to report? What happened to that story?!"
They throw out a rumor of an unsubstantiated fear, then simply move on to the next.
On Facebook, we watch our friends and family get strung along. They genuinely believe every day is some new terrible transgression of Constitutional Governance by Trump. If you ask for a specific, they scatter-shot the next accusation.
I trolled some friends by facebook-posting something about Dems and Facebook contacts. THey said, "why didn't you say anything about Republicans doing that?" I responded that there was no need for me to, since A. It had already been in the news, and B. the friend/commenter just took care of that for me, per plan, just as he is supposed to do. <–this ticked this guy off pretty good.
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I was just thinking about this topic this morning. Most people do not have the time to research things individually. Or even if they do, they don’t know where to turn.
We need a concise document that describes and summarizes the lies of the mainstream media as it pertains to the FBI DOJ Trump Russia issue. Something that we can distribute via email, post on Facebook, text, or, whatever medium each prefers.
We need to do our part to raise the awareness of a wider audience. So that when the events we expect unfold, more people will understand and accept the 180° turn from what they’ve heard or read for months. Prepping them first will achieve the maximum mileage in exposing the bias and ulterior motives of the MSM.
Something like one of Sundance’s summaries or videos that is dumbed down a bit into easy to digest bullet points.
To cover these general themes:
1) MSM has been lying to you.
2) Here’s what really happened and here are the players.
3) Here is what will likely happen next.
4) Consider your news sources’ motives next time you read or view a story. Insist on facts. Learn to differentiate them from insinuation and innuendo.
5) Don’t get fooled again.
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Sundance,
All of those stations are owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is owned and operated by conservatives. Please do a little research on this. You’ve started a circular firing squad.
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This is being circulated by the left. I guess they managed to hit a “winning” piece of propaganda to take out a group they hate such as Sinclair.
As an aside, none of the Sinclair owned stations in my area are pro-Trump, but they do all report on the exact same “news”, including local stuff from China that has no relevance to anything here.
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Nope. Not “being circulated by the Left.”
CNN has a similar stupid commercial version about apples and bananas.
First saw this “We are not Fake News” spiel on a local newscast about a week ago. Looked at nephew who happened to be there and we both broke out laughing and laughing. Like we’re supposed to believe them because they sounded so sincere. Little did we know that they were indeed reading from a script and didn’t mean a word of it. What is most annoying is them pretending to be unbiased and truthful as they segue way into the next report on Stormy D. and promote the same progressive drivel as the other local TV newsrooms. Realizing that they were ordered to read that “Public Service Announcement” from corporate is just icing on the cake. Still laughing.
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A better summary: “You are all individuals” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY
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Sarah Palin must have seen this on CTH. She just put a retweet of the video on her Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/sarahpalin/posts/?ref=notif
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This would be even funnier is it weren’t so alarming….TALKING HEADS… total mind control of the masses…George Orwell warned us of BIG BROTHER and he is among us now….OH and by the way….we are not a Democracy….we are a REPUBLIC….it says so in the Pledge of Allegiance….
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Sundance, I made clear above that I do not agree with you, even though I do agree with your take 90% of the time.
Let’s hear what geotus says:
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Late follow up. 4/4/18
So George Neumayr in the American Spectator has written an article about Sinclair being dumped on by the MSM for having its station anchors read the company’s mission statement. It appears that some folks upthread here were correct in insisting this video collage from Sinclair-owned stations was nothing troubling in and of itself. Here’s the article:
https://spectator.org/the-herd-media-stampedes-sinclair/
Note – I was one of those who commented against this, believing it to be something more sinister. I was wrong.
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