Sinclair's script for stations on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2018–2021.
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A short compilation of dozens of local news anchors at Sinclair-owned stations reading the same scripted promo about biased and fake news. It went viral in 2018 as an example of centralized media messaging.
Cited as an example of media consolidation and coordinated messaging, mostly in threads about distrust of news, though it is also posted as a plain source.
“I found it pretty eye opening”
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Make sure you begin your class by playing this clip? I found it pretty eye opening: ▶ this video Description: dozens/hundreds of newscasters reading the exact same script.
in “Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy” · View on HN
I don't think that Facebook and Twitter are a bad thing at all. I think there is confusion as there is a massive power struggle and a lack of information on our side ( ▶ this video ). Also, I don't know what you mean by "average Joes." I don't think any person is less competent than another, and I would rather help to give access to information to the people, frankly, if I thought someone did have less information. I'm a little confused by your position on people, and afraid of your position on freedom of information and equality.
in “Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites” · View on HN
This is a result of vaccination. France[1], Taiwan[2] among others are already stopping the distribution of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. mRNA vaccines actually inject "code" into a cell, much like reverse engineering software. Unfortunately, small surface hacks can lead to detrimental disaster in overall systems without a full understanding of what that hack affects within said overall system. We rushed to fight COVID19, and it makes sense. That said, we shouldn't have panicked leaders who aren't able to take a scientific approach. Now, the news media has been all but completely conquered [3]. The internet is being censored on the guise of misinformation. Freedoms are being lost. It's a tremendous leap that the system of government has made within the past couple years. This is not the result of evil actors, but simply, the system itself has so many forces acting upon it which has led it to become evil itself. Finally, and moreover, as the article implies, the mRNA vaccination experiment is failing, and humanity itself is now at risk. People talk about 'robot machines' taking over people as in the Matrix movie, but its much more likely 'complex systems of legislation' will rule and dominate people. Welcome to the Matrix. [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] ▶ this video
in “Five fold increase in Cardiac deaths of FIFA athletes” · View on HN
If you’re interested here are some highlights from my journey to 0% trust in the media: ▶ this video [link] [link] [link] I’d be curious to hear yours.
in “Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record” · View on HN
FYI, the article seems to be linking to a reupload of the original video for some reason. This is the original: ▶ this video
in “Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script” · View on HN
Shocked that the media is inaccurate? You should see Sinclair broadcasting. One of the 4 or so corporations that own the media. ▶ this video
in “Covid increases unrelated to vaccination rates” · View on HN
> I'm starting to think that the outcome of our political systems in the West produces suboptimal compromises engineered by politicians who are quite frankly ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and really just not good specimens of the species. It's like the system is designed to be mediocre. the problem is that one of the political parties has it as an ideological point that government doesn't and can't work, and sets out to sabotage everything to prove that they're right. Like how florida deliberately makes it impossible to get your unemployment. [link] There is, unfortunately, not a good fix for this, as similar parties exist worldwide. But banning Murdoch media and de-consolidating media control in general (returning local stations to local management, etc) would be a good start. Cause right now this is your local news station: ▶ this video
in “One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment” · View on HN
Another way to put this..how much does the news media influence people? In the U.S. 90% of the news media is held by 5 conglomerates. You get creepy stuff like this. ▶ this video Makes you wonder how reliable the news media is in the U.S. I can't even imagine how bad it is in countries where oligarchs control things.
in “Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign” · View on HN
Looks a whole lot like Sinclair's script for stations: ▶ this video I'm not convinced US media is all that different.
in “Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign” · View on HN
> I wouldn’t, but that’s because of something deeper than anything we experience in America or Australia. I'm sick of this holier than thou attitude that people have here. There's this patronizing attitude that if only the brain washed Chinese knew what was really happening they would rise up! Yet you know about the Nayirah testimony, MKUltra, Snowden, Cambridge Analytica, migrant camps... why aren't you out protesting, storming congress, why isn't Bush in prison, why isn't Trump impeached? It's not a "small minority"; it's the majority. Most Americans don't care enough to find out and if they did they wouldn't care enough to do anything. I'd argue that the propaganda is much deeper and subtle in the West. The media is a oligarchy yet it's still "independent" ▶ this video You believe are the good guys despite history despite everything.
in “Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'” · View on HN
It's worse than that. A significant portion of of American "local" news is actually just parroting Sinclair Broadcast Group which is a national group trying to push right wing opinion. See this for a chilling example ▶ this video
in “Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook” · View on HN
Not quite. I think for it to be a more apt comparison, Facebook would need to be pushing a narrative to it's most popular users to promote on their channels, the same way that Sinclair group does: ▶ this video I don't think there's evidence of that right now with Facebook.
in “Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook” · View on HN
I find it sad this is being downvoted. I think this rings true. Perhaps too true? HN has its bents and focuses, but it's at least more conversationally balanced than reddit (perhaps [link] partially explains some of the reasons why). The news media is of course pure bias and content/distribution/agenda masquerading as fact-based objectivity (eg, ▶ this video ). Where else can I look for... the kind of apolitical, discussion-focused information sharing that eg used to happen on blogs circa 2007, but in discussion community form, and within a community framework that is bias-resistant?
in “The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective” · View on HN
I'm not sure I would paint traditional media companies, like say local news stations, as paragons of integrity, autonomy, and having a strong conscience. Exhibit A: ▶ this video
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