Klamath Falls, OR— It's so sad to watch these clowns on Fox News. With Hannity being the biggest clown of them all. Next Tucker Carlson. Then there is Judge Jeanine Pirro and Laura Ingraham.
Instead of doing their own research Fox News viewers take them at their word as if their word is Gospel. Then claim everything else is "fake news" because they have been brainwashed by propaganda from the Right.
In May 2017, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., already the nation’s largest owner of local television stations, announced a $3.9 billion deal to purchase the Tribune Media Company, a move that will increase SBG’s holdings to 233 stations in 108 U.S. markets.
Only a few weeks previously, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to relax regulations limiting how many local stations individual companies can own, effectively encouraging further consolidation of the broadcast industry via mergers such as the one between Sinclair and Tribune.
These developments drew instant criticism from observers who complained not only that they pave the way for increased corporate hegemony, but more political bias in local news as well. USA Today reported: Free media advocates say concentrated ownership of TV stations is harmful for consumers because it limits programming options and undermines local news editorial operations. “The local broadcast television news is still how most Americans get information about what’s going on both nationally and in their local communities,” says Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, a media advocacy group. “The concentration of that medium in the hands of a few companies, such as Sinclair (Broadcast Group), would erode the diversity of opinions and the diversity of antagonistic sources of opinions that Americans need in order to have effective democracy.”
Even though the opinion pieces themselves were clearly labeled “commentary” (in all the examples cited by Oliver, at any rate) the scripted introductions delivered by local news anchors were not so labeled, he said: If the opinions were confined just to the commentary or to the ad breaks that would be one thing. But Sinclair can sometimes dictate the content of your local newscast as well. And in contrast to Fox News — a clearly conservative outlet where you basically know what you’re getting — with Sinclair they’re injecting Fox-worthy content into the mouths of your local news anchors.
And I love this one, "liberalism is a mental disorder". Liberalism is the American nightmare. Can't you people tell, we don't want American liberals in the country anymore. And if things go the way the right wants, we will have you all out of here."
And when protesters are protesting those on the Right make comments like the following: Run them over, drive over them, shoot them, hang them. Then some people wonder why some people should not be allowed to own guns, less well cars.
By James Garland of Tulelake News
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