40 ms·
To be honest, that segment made me question the "Sinclair = propaganda" meme. It's the only Sinclair production I've ever watched (don't watch OTA TV), I watche
by creato 7y ago
To be honest, that segment made me question the "Sinclair = propaganda" meme. It's the only Sinclair production I've ever watched (don't watch OTA TV), I watched the whole thing. I thought it was very reasonable. Maybe Sinclair is a nefarious operation, but in my opinion that was a well done segment with reasonable suggestions for a way forward; their highlighting of how a Rhode Island(? it's been a while since I watched it) municipality is handling the issue.
If the choices are the "propaganda camp" or the "totally hands-off approach to homelessness taken across the west coast camp" (and the associated blind eye to blatant criminal behavior and near total abandonment of responsibility towards public property in some places), I guess I'm in the propaganda camp.
- Aloha 7y agoI'd agree, it was extremely balanced and touched on the nuances of the problem, and the fact that there are no easy answers either - it made the case that just throwing people in jail wont do any good either.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoPropaganda is meant to look reasonable. Part of the problem with it is that they successfully presented you with a totally false choice - there are tons of options between "throw them on a prison island" and "do nothing", but the successful ones all involve an unacceptable amount of assistance and dignity given to these homeless people, and so Sinclair and friends just dismiss it as a handout or "moral hazard".