Viral video raises worry over Sinclair's political messaging inside local news

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Recommends mvexel · 2021-09 · on “Stop Reading News (2013)”

I could not agree more with this approach. The Economist is excellent, and because they are a weekly publication, their reporting can be more thoughtful and detached from the outrage du jour. They also have excellent podcasts: the daily Intelligence and, for those interested in US politics, the weekly "Checks and Balance". Supporting local news has become so much more important here in the U.S., as more and more independent local newspapers are shutting down, even in medium-sized metro areas. In addition, a lot of "Local" TV stations are owned by, and puppets of, corporations with political agendas like Sinclair[1]. From the linked article: > About 39% of Americans are within range of a Sinc

Cites WarOnPrivacy · 2026-06 · on “The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy”

>And, as usual, "risk/threat to democracy" is used to mean "support for parties I don't like" It can also mean highly influential support for ideologies I don't like - like fascism, authoritarianism and ultranationalism. > many of those complaining now were quite happy to endorse the right of private companies to promote/suppress speech at will A few years ago, bog-standard content moderation was limiting the reach of enormously+reasonably unpopular ideologies like fascism, authoritarianism and ultranationalism. Groups who were profoundly unhappy with these limits would bullhorn complaints of intentional suppression and censorship. With the release of the Twitter Files (which exposed content

Critical cmroanirgo · 2020-06 · on “I Am Deleting the Blog”

And there's the rub. What is "quality investigative reporting" in an objective sense, when most of the MSM outlets are owned by oligarchs, or simply "toe the line"? In theory I would gladly support the theory of "quality investigative reporting", but the reality is a propagandist machine where opinion pieces replaces actual unbiased, adjective-free objective news. Some examples of "oligarch news": [this video] [LINK] As a former developer who worked closely on Thomson Reuters News feed (in the 00's), I've seen how there is almost zero fact checking for the information that appears on news feeds. Instead, news outlets trust the 'upstream' feeds and then quote the reports verbatim. To be fair, ther

Critical esseph · 2025-08 · on “Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations”

Public radio and local broadcasting has been gobbled up by right-wing sources, including Sinclair Watch this clip: [this video]