ACQUIRING TRIBUNE MEDIA AND BECOMING ANOTHER HUGE MEDIA
CONGLOMERATE.
THERE ARE SOME RAMIFICATIONS ESPECIALLY WHEN
YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THEY FORCE THE NETWORKS THEY WORK
WITH TO RUN THESE MUST RUN ADS.
THEY ARE VERY OBVIOUSLY
RIGHT-LEANING.
I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS WHO DID NOT
LIKE HILLARY, BUT THEY FELT THAT WAY DUE TO JUSTIFIABLE REASONS.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEING HISTORICALLY IN FAVOR OF SLAVERY
IS NOT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO VOTE IN
FAVOR OF HILLARY.
>>THAT IS A PROPAGANDA LIE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE RIGHT-WING PUT
OUT THERE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DECEIVING YOU.
THEY ARE TALKING
ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY WHEN THE PARTIES WERE REVERSED.
THIS WAS
UNDER ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THAT IS WHAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUGHT
AGAINST THE CONFEDERACY AND THEIR SLAVES.
THEY DON'T TELL
YOU IS IN 1964 BECAUSE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND THE VOTING
RIGHTS ACT THE PARTIES SWITCHED AND THE REPUBLICANS DID THE
SOUTHERN STRATEGY TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE RACIST VOTERS IN THE
SOUTH TO VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THAT'S WHAT THE
REPUBLICANS DID UNDER RICHARD NIXON.
WHEN SINCLAIR RUNS THOSE
ADS THEY SAY NOT ONLY ARE WE REPUBLICAN RIGHT-WINGERS, WE ARE
INTENDING TO DECEIVE YOU BY PRETENDING THE DEMOCRATS OF
TODAY ARE IN FAVOR OF SLAVERY AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE AGAINST
IT WHEN IN REALITY REPUBLICANS JUST STRIPPED AWAY THE SAME
PROTECTIONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT TODAY.
THEY ARE THE RACIST
PARTY.
AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE TV STATIONS TO DO THAT
WITH.
>>AND THAT IS ONE OF THE ISSUES WITH CONGLOMERATES.
IF YOU HAVE
ONE CORPORATION OR A HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS TAKING COMPLETE
CONTROL OF THE CONTENT YOU SEE IN LOCAL NEWS OR NEWS ON A
NATIONAL LEVEL YOU WILL HAVE A PROBLEM.
YOU WILL HAVE A CERTAIN
SLANT, POLITICAL BIAS, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING
RIGHT NOW.
LET ME GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS.
IT WASN'T JUST THE
HILLARY AD, SINCE NOVEMBER 2015 SINCLAIR RAN A DAILY SEGMENT
CALLED ñ IT HAS TO DO WITH TERRORISM.
IT UPDATES ON
TERRORISM RELATED NEWS AROUND THE WORLD.
CLASSIC FEAR
MONGERING.
THEY ARE PROPOSING AN ACQUISITION OF TRIBUNE MEDIA
WHICH WOULD ADD 42 STATIONS TO SINCLAIR'S 173.
STATIONS WOULD
REACH MORE THAN 70% OF THE NATION'S HOUSEHOLDS INCLUDING
THE LARGEST MARKETS.
THAT INCLUDES NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES,
THE BIGGEST MARKETS RIGHT NOW.
SO THEY ARE CONCERNED THEY ARE
GOING TO FACE RETALIATION IF THEY DON'T RUN THESE MUST RUN
ADS THEY DON'T AGREE WITH BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY
POLITICALLY BIASED.
TO BE FAIR TO KOMO NEWS THEY ARE NOT
INTERESTED IN REPORTING FOR POLITICAL BIAS.
THE JOURNALIST
THAT WORK THERE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE REPUTATION AND
CREDIBILITY IF THESE ADS RUN ON THEIR NETWORK OR STATION.
>> CAN YOU IMAGINE IF A MEDIA ORGANIZATION PUT OUT ADS SAYING
REPUBLICANS ARE THE PROSLAVERY PARTY.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS, WE KNEW IT.
INSTEAD THEY REVERSE THE TRUTH AND SAY THE DEMOCRATS OTHER
PROSLAVERY PARTY.
>>BY THE WAY THEY DO RANT AGAINST THE LIBERAL MEDIA.
HERE IS THE HEAD OF SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP TALKING
ABOUT FAKE MEDIA.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MUST RUN ADS.
>>HI, I AM SCOTT LIVINGSTON VICE PRESIDENT OF NEWS FOR THIS
TELEVISION STATION.
WE KNOW OUR GREATEST RESPONSIBILITY IS
SERVING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
I AM PROUD OF THE JOURNALISM THAT
THE STATION PRODUCES.
BUT I'M SURE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE
TROUBLING TREND OF IRRESPONSIBLE AND ONE-SIDED NEWS STORIES
PLAGUING OUR COUNTRY.
THE SHARING OF BIAS AND FALSE NEWS
HAS BECOME ALL TOO COMMON ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
MORE ALARMING,
NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS ARE PUBLISHING THESE FAKE NEWS
STORIES WITHOUT FACT CHECKING.
UNFORTUNATELY SOME MEMBERS OF
THE NATIONAL MEDIA ARE USING THEIR PLATFORMS TO PUSH THEIR
OWN PERSONAL BIAS AND AGENDA TO CONTROLLING EXACTLY WHAT
PEOPLE THINK.
>> IF THAT IS A PROJECTION I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
>>IF GEORGE ORWELL SAW THAT HE WOULD SCREAM I TOLD YOU.
AS THEY
DO PROPAGANDA OVER AND OVER AGAIN ON SINCLAIR, THEY DO
ANOTHER PIECE OF PROPAGANDA TO TELL YOU THE REST OF THE MEDIA
IS BIASED.