We'll only hear about it after things are settled.Any word on the lawsuit?
Episode ran so long that DVR cut off the very end.
The main segment was pretty alarming.
This may jump around a lot, sorry it's too early in the morning but I wanted to get some of these out there:
Constantly under the thumb of corporate. They are controlling in all the worst ways.
The terrorism alert desk was a mandatory thing that our news director has to put in their early evening show.
Circa was forced to be promoted to a point that we had a commercial for it 3-4 times an hour. We were forced to use circa stories twice a day.
You may notice that the production quality is substandard to what you see everywhere else. That's on purpose. Sinclair is cheap and wants everything to look the same. They send a team out to every station to force all the directors to have the exact same lighting and camera settings on all equipment company wide. Everything looks muted and cheap and if the producers and directors want to change them for the better, they are threatened to be fired.
The Sinclair graphics package is also forced on all station which is followed with the same veiled threats.if I played the news theme for you here, it would sound like every Sinclair stations news.
https://youtu.be/gPMlUQjtPvw
Currently they own ROH Wrestling -- which has all the same problems of their news product listed above. Don't worry, they're selling it. Sinclair was trying to get into to sports broadcasting and created American Sports Network ASN and ROH was to be a part of it. it failed miserably.
They run extremely cheap and charge high ad prices which is why they have so much money to buy tribune. They are known to run stations into the ground just to have a footprint in a particular Market. Look at their St. Louis station abc30. They don't have an evening news, they hired conservative host Jamie Allman to do a 30 minute editorial show instead of news. It's bad. It's basically a local affiliate doing O'Reilly as their only news product.
They are creating syndicated programs to send to all of their stations to run very similar to Allman's show. Which is interesting because...
news directives by CEO David Smith. He once had a meeting with news directors where he asked everyone to focus their news content to be more like Afterburner. This leads to a bunch of other issues There's a video in the link below. Our news director said that he wants content to resemble this particular style which after seeing what you saw on Last Week Tonight proves he made it a corporate thing.
http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/8/31/sinclair-ceo-goes-off
I realize that a lot of these behind the scenes stuff is really inside baseball for the common public. Sinclair runs like a monopoly and very soon they could be one of the largest media companies in America shaping the conversation.
I know there's a lot of people who say the media is liberal. But corporations own the media and you're going to have a hard time finding a liberal at the top of those companies. The local news production team might lean more left, but corporate dictates. It's hard to find the balance and it causes a lot of problems. Just know that most people who work in news, local news, try to cover the story as best and unbiased as they can. However, when you have a company like Sinclair who meddles with the news content, then you have a problem. This is a company with an agenda telling you what to think.
I don't think Sinclair really has a political agenda. Their politics are revenue. They are buying tech and producing news stories at scale to lower cost. They have identified what will make the audience of their stations watch and it happens to be right wing programming. If the audience get's bored and stops watching, they will switch.
Sinclair cares about 1 thing only and it's selling ad inventory. Trump, republicans and terrorism only insofar as it helps them sell ad inventory.
I looked up Sinclair in relation to where I live and jesus fuck, 2 out of the 3 local news stations are Sinclair. As if things couldn't be bad enough politically here.
Ugh, jesus fucking christ...
Laura Fucking Linney
In Columbus, Ohio Sinclair owns the local Fox and ABC news and rebroadcasts on the CW. I think the local CBS news (which I watch) is owned by Tribune. I'd really rather Sinclair didn't get their books into them.
Yeah, I checked after I posted in the topic about this segment, I knew they owned my area Fox station but looking at the others they also own my area NBC and CW stations too through two different subsidiaries though they share studio space. At least there's still CBS and ABC though the former seems like it's dying or being killed by budget cuts.
Trump has been president for how long, and you're just finding this out?We are so fucked
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Uh Alex Jones sells "Child Ease" designed to soothe the mind and bodies of children.
Some chocolate drink mix with bee pollen and the dust of chicken skeletons?
Taint wipes?
This shit pissed me off. I knew this goofy bastard did some sort of radio/internet freak show but I didn't know he spent so much time airtime selling his own junk.
Uh Alex Jones sells "Child Ease" designed to soothe the mind and bodies of children.
Some chocolate drink mix with bee pollen and the dust of chicken skeletons?
Taint wipes?
This shit pissed me off. I knew this goofy bastard did some sort of radio/internet freak show but I didn't know he spent so much time airtime selling his own junk.
Have you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda The Ocarina of Time?
Have you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda The Ocarina of Time?
AmazingHave you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda The Ocarina of Time?
Have you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda The Ocarina of Time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-lnPk5SFrk
That Weird Al song is going to be all over the radio tomorrow I bet. 😂
Have you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda The Ocarina of Time?
Why isn't this up on HBO Now? I thought stuff premiered there simultaneously?
Does anyone have a gif of him awkwardly combing the dolls hair at the end?
Why isn't this up on HBO Now? I thought stuff premiered there simultaneously?