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And it’s strong and consistent propaganda. It’s amazing to watch one right wing troll on Twitter state explicitly that he’s going to target the phrase CRT for d

And it’s strong and consistent propaganda. It’s amazing to watch one right wing troll on Twitter state explicitly that he’s going to target the phrase CRT for demonization and within a week all conservative influences, news stations and politicians are talking about how awful CRT in our schools is. All of them sending the same message over and over again completely fabricating a drama out of nothing. And it works. Over and over again from migrant caravans to sharia law to immigrants eating your cats and dogs. Just blatant lies repeated enough completely warps peoples brains. Just look at how many conservatives believe Kamala wants free gender surgery for illegal immigrants and post birth abortions. There are literally tens of millions of people in this country with zero grasp on reality. I lost my own father to this pipeline. He is basically the “How I lost my father to Fox News” case except it was AM radio over decades as a long haul truck driver. He went from being an intellectually curious atheist to a Bible thumping trumper who constantly rants about Muslims coming to kill us all. The man has never met a Muslim in his life. I don’t recognize him anymore. I lost my mom to this too. She was turned anti-vax during covid and ended up dying to it in 2022. She successfully beat lung cancer after smoking all her life and then wouldn’t take the most basic precautions she had provided to her kids when we were growing up without any controversy and Covid won.

mrguyorama 2y ago
Your "local" news is regularly contractually obligrated to run segments written by a right wing company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo "This is dangerous to democracy"
- astroid 2y ago
  This is true across the board - your 'local news' isn't local at all, and you'll notice that highlighted outlets include CBS, NBC, Fox, etc. I'm well aware of that clip, and it disgusted me when it first began circulating nearly a decade ago. I am opposed to govt influence in media and journalism, period. It doesn't matter which side you pick. Yes, Sinclair Broadcast Group has a right-leaning bias, and the way they have monopolized local news is sickening. Sinclair is a blight on 'local news' for a variety of reasons, but having a right-bias really is the least of them when you consider how many of the 'big media' companies have a 'liberal bias'. To me the concern here is really the death of local reporting which is being outsourced to a monolithic entity with no stake in the local community. Here is a general breakdown of the national / international players and their bias: Comcast - Liberal Bias (https://freebeacon.com/politics/comcasts-agenda/ https://freebeacon.com/politics/comcasts-agenda/) Disney - Liberal Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Walt_Disney_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Walt_Disney_C...) Warner Bros Discovery - Mixed Bias (Although they own CNN, which is viewed largely as liberal bias: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/cnn-faces-financial-challenges-as-analysts-consider-potential-sale-options-806708cb https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/cnn-faces-financial-...) Paramount - Liberal Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Paramount_Global https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Paramount_Global) Sony - Mixed Bias AT&T (which largely owns the Time Warner conglomerate now): Mixed Bias (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=D000000076 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=D000000...) News Corp - Conservative Bias (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart) National Amusements (which owns Paramount, MTV, BET, CBS, Viacom which is a conglomerate in and of itself and many more) - Liberal Bias (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-amusements-inc/summary?id=D000021767 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-amusements-inc/sum... + https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-07-02-1716/banking-and-finance-skydance-media-and-national-amusements-inc-reach-new-merger https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-07-02-1716/banking-and-fi...) Viacom - Liberal Bias Sinclair Broadcast Group - Conservative Bias These companies compromise the vast majority of media available, particularly in the US. They are all so large with so many subsidiaries it would be impossible to break them all down in a HN comment, but just counting the 'heads of the snake' we have: Liberal bias: 5 out of this list Conservative bias: 2 out of this list (and 2 of the smaller of the bunch) Mixed bias: 3 out of this list It's great you see the 'local' news for what it is, but that's just a tiny slice of the issue. So while I certainly agree that the Sinclair situation where they gobbled up any local news stations is a problem, if your trying to imply that the media as a whole is more a conservative bias than liberal that is preposterous. The overall landscape is indisputably 'left leaning' when it comes to Bias. As I am sure you are aware, similarly there was recently controversy about George Soros buying a major stake in 227 radio stations in the US, which reach 165 million Americans in the 45 markets they cover -- so roughly half the country in that single investment, and if you limited it to adults it's closer to 82%. That's a pretty large chunk of people to have influence over, and could potentially dwarf the Sinclair issue you highlighted but it is at least in the same realm. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-fund-buys-400-165211641.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-fund-buys-400-16...) TL;DR - I know you think you did something here, but if you zoom out your point is basically moot even if the buyout of local journalism and news broadcasting is abhorrent.

mrguyorama 2y ago

Your "local" news is regularly contractually obligrated to run segments written by a right wing company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo "This is dangerous to democracy"

astroid 2y ago
This is true across the board - your 'local news' isn't local at all, and you'll notice that highlighted outlets include CBS, NBC, Fox, etc. I'm well aware of that clip, and it disgusted me when it first began circulating nearly a decade ago. I am opposed to govt influence in media and journalism, period. It doesn't matter which side you pick. Yes, Sinclair Broadcast Group has a right-leaning bias, and the way they have monopolized local news is sickening. Sinclair is a blight on 'local news' for a variety of reasons, but having a right-bias really is the least of them when you consider how many of the 'big media' companies have a 'liberal bias'. To me the concern here is really the death of local reporting which is being outsourced to a monolithic entity with no stake in the local community. Here is a general breakdown of the national / international players and their bias: Comcast - Liberal Bias (https://freebeacon.com/politics/comcasts-agenda/ https://freebeacon.com/politics/comcasts-agenda/) Disney - Liberal Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Walt_Disney_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Walt_Disney_C...) Warner Bros Discovery - Mixed Bias (Although they own CNN, which is viewed largely as liberal bias: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/cnn-faces-financial-challenges-as-analysts-consider-potential-sale-options-806708cb https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/cnn-faces-financial-...) Paramount - Liberal Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Paramount_Global https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Paramount_Global) Sony - Mixed Bias AT&T (which largely owns the Time Warner conglomerate now): Mixed Bias (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=D000000076 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=D000000...) News Corp - Conservative Bias (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart) National Amusements (which owns Paramount, MTV, BET, CBS, Viacom which is a conglomerate in and of itself and many more) - Liberal Bias (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-amusements-inc/summary?id=D000021767 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-amusements-inc/sum... + https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-07-02-1716/banking-and-finance-skydance-media-and-national-amusements-inc-reach-new-merger https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-07-02-1716/banking-and-fi...) Viacom - Liberal Bias Sinclair Broadcast Group - Conservative Bias These companies compromise the vast majority of media available, particularly in the US. They are all so large with so many subsidiaries it would be impossible to break them all down in a HN comment, but just counting the 'heads of the snake' we have: Liberal bias: 5 out of this list Conservative bias: 2 out of this list (and 2 of the smaller of the bunch) Mixed bias: 3 out of this list It's great you see the 'local' news for what it is, but that's just a tiny slice of the issue. So while I certainly agree that the Sinclair situation where they gobbled up any local news stations is a problem, if your trying to imply that the media as a whole is more a conservative bias than liberal that is preposterous. The overall landscape is indisputably 'left leaning' when it comes to Bias. As I am sure you are aware, similarly there was recently controversy about George Soros buying a major stake in 227 radio stations in the US, which reach 165 million Americans in the 45 markets they cover -- so roughly half the country in that single investment, and if you limited it to adults it's closer to 82%. That's a pretty large chunk of people to have influence over, and could potentially dwarf the Sinclair issue you highlighted but it is at least in the same realm. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-fund-buys-400-165211641.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-fund-buys-400-16...) TL;DR - I know you think you did something here, but if you zoom out your point is basically moot even if the buyout of local journalism and news broadcasting is abhorrent.