Repeat After Me

“Local television is still one of the most popular ways Americans get their news, which makes what Sinclair Broadcasting is doing seem all the more heinous. . . . 

“It’s sickening to watch local journalists who are forced to read something that trashes their own profession.”

—News & Guts, newsman Dan Rather’s news media production company, “Sinclair Broadcasting: A Clear and Present Danger,” April 1, 2018.

  

Watch: Deadspin.com compiled video of “news anchors” at some of Sinclair’s 200 local TV stations delivering, word-for-word, their corporate masters’ message. See “How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump’s War On The Media.”

 

 

• Editorial Comment: George Orwell had nothing on this. Chilling.

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