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When I opened the article I got a gdrp cookie popup from Sinclair, who apparently owns CBS12. I'm not American and all I know about the US media landscape is w

When I opened the article I got a gdrp cookie popup from Sinclair, who apparently owns CBS12. I'm not American and all I know about the US media landscape is what I get from HN, but isn't Sinclair this local broadcaster that's notorious for spreading absolute bollocks all the time? Does this site have anything to do with the real CBS? More specifically, is any of this true?

hackerman123469 6y ago
It's not even GDPR compliant because everything is every setting is toggled "YES" by default which is illegal.
danso 6y ago
I have no reason to distrust the local CBS affiliate, but in any case, it’s a summary of a story reported by this news outlet: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorship-covid-19-data-researcher-removed-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/ https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorshi... Note that floridatoday.com is a Gannett/GateHouse paper, and the reason why I didn’t submit it is because I had thought that network is inaccesible to EU users.
- isolli 6y ago
  Actually the Florida Today website opens with this banner: "Welcome to USA TODAY NETWORK’S EUROPEAN UNION EXPERIENCE", and is entirely ad free. I believe it is better in general to post the original source, in order to support local journalism.
  - danso 6y ago
    Nice! Thank you for the info
kevingadd 6y ago
Sinclair owns a big chunk of US media outlets, so it's not surprising that a particular outlet's website would have Sinclair cookies on it. While the upper level Sinclair management has a well-deserved bad reputation the individuals working at the local level can still do good reporting if they're allowed to. When an American TV station is 'ABC 7' or 'CBS 12' that typically means they're a local TV station with a deal to rebroadcast official ABC, CBS, etc programming mixed in with some bits of local/original footage. So when you watched an ABC station here, you got mostly national ABC footage combined with a mix of local content (like news programs) and local ads.
pizza 6y ago
Sinclair is the same broadcasting station featured in the terror-inducing "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE&disable_polymer=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE&disable_polymer=...
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE?t=52 https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE?t=52 We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

hackerman123469 6y ago

It's not even GDPR compliant because everything is every setting is toggled "YES" by default which is illegal.

danso 6y ago

I have no reason to distrust the local CBS affiliate, but in any case, it’s a summary of a story reported by this news outlet: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorship-covid-19-data-researcher-removed-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/ https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorshi... Note that floridatoday.com is a Gannett/GateHouse paper, and the reason why I didn’t submit it is because I had thought that network is inaccesible to EU users.

isolli 6y ago
Actually the Florida Today website opens with this banner: "Welcome to USA TODAY NETWORK’S EUROPEAN UNION EXPERIENCE", and is entirely ad free. I believe it is better in general to post the original source, in order to support local journalism.
- danso 6y ago
  Nice! Thank you for the info

kevingadd 6y ago

Sinclair owns a big chunk of US media outlets, so it's not surprising that a particular outlet's website would have Sinclair cookies on it. While the upper level Sinclair management has a well-deserved bad reputation the individuals working at the local level can still do good reporting if they're allowed to. When an American TV station is 'ABC 7' or 'CBS 12' that typically means they're a local TV station with a deal to rebroadcast official ABC, CBS, etc programming mixed in with some bits of local/original footage. So when you watched an ABC station here, you got mostly national ABC footage combined with a mix of local content (like news programs) and local ads.

pizza 6y ago

Sinclair is the same broadcasting station featured in the terror-inducing "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE&disable_polymer=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE&disable_polymer=...

TeMPOraL 6y ago
https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE?t=52 https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE?t=52 We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.