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"The Pledge America Campaign enables broadcasters to lend their voices in support of Task Force 250 and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing pa
by hedora 8mo ago
"The Pledge America Campaign enables broadcasters to lend their
voices in support of Task Force 250 and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing
patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by
highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump
Administration today."
Even ignoring the context (Trump censoring things, limiting private institutions speech, murdering people because their state's governor said mean things, etc, etc), the text of the page you link to clearly says broadcasters will need to air pro-Trump programming.
If you take context into account by looking at how the administration has redefined many of the words they use in the document (I guess you'd call that a "dog whistle"), then it's even more clear this is the Trump's attempt to force the news media to air a coordinated propaganda campaign during a pivotal election year.
- tzs 8mo ago>> "The Pledge America Campaign enables broadcasters to lend their voices in support of Task Force 250 and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today." > Even ignoring the context (Trump censoring things, limiting private institutions speech, murdering people because their state's governor said mean things, etc, etc), the text of the page you link to clearly says broadcasters will need to air pro-Trump programming Where does it say that? The part you quoted is using "Trump Administration today" as an interval endpoint, not a specifier of content.
- hedora 8mo ago"celebrates ... highlights the historic accomplishments through (i.e. including those of) the Trump Administration today." If we want to be really pedantic, we can figure out what they accomplished up to and including the day of the sentence. I guess this means the networks need to run propaganda films supporting the bombing of that girls school that killed > 160 kids?