crunchbuttsteak:

hello-kitty-senpai:

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

pennamites:

castle-engineer:

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

This is one of those things that I already knew was true, but seeing it so blatantly displayed makes me feel like like I am finding out about it for the first time.

CIA is getting lazy

O.o

“It’s just a script whats the problem lol” the problem is that Fox, CNN, CBS, and all the other channels repped here, despite claiming to be different companies with different viewpoints, all had the exact same script, word for word, to push the exact same viewpoint that smaller, independent news outlets are Fake News and “A Threat To Our Democracy.”

The fact that they have scripts isn’t the problem. The problem is they all, each and every one, have the exact same script down to the letter and in some cases the fucking inflection, which basically reads “small news stations are untrustworthy and a Threat to your Way Of Life, only trust Us, We Are Verified.”

These are all clips from TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right wing company that’s been buying up TV stations, and is currently in the process of trying to buy up Tribune’s portfolio of TV stations, which would give them unprecedented ownership of TV stations.

The networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, et al only own a handful of the TV stations that carry their branding and those are all in the bigger cities like Los Angeles and New York, the rest of them are called “affiliate stations” and they have agreements to carry their primetime programming and the use the network branding, but they can be owned by anybody.  In the past it would be some local dude like the guy who owns a car dealership.

However, since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there has been a trend of large media conglomerates buying up TV stations across the country.  Sinclair in particular has been buying up TV stations in the smaller areas and mostly doing so below the radar of most people.

Sinclair however, has fairly far right views and forces any station they own to air these “must run” segments to push these far-right views.

and they’ve been trying to buy up Tribune for a while, but they were stymied by the FCC who were blocking them.  But ever since Pai became chairman of it, he rewrite the rules on media consolidation purely to benefit Sinclair so they could buy Tribune.