The Layers of F*ckery Behind The Sinclair Broadcast Group Scandal

"Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you"

So the Sinclair Broadcast Group wrote a script and forced its local TV stations to read it word for word. Those of use who have disconnected from the media bubble generally have always viewed the news as a tool for brainwashing. Top story, sports, gloss over politics (they never go deep), sports, weather, random food study(food studies are always PR from companies selling that food), repeat. So this story isn't surprising to us. It feels sort of like deflecting and it's a lot like the anti-gay politician who ultimately gets caught in a gay scandal. Media companies with larger audiences than Sinclair are calling this scripted messaging, brainwashing. What are these larger companies scripted messages called when its beamed into many many more eyeballs than Sinclair could ever hope to do? Its no defense of Sinclair, I just don't appreciate companies like CNN, ABC and CBS assuming I'm so naive to think that their hands are clean.

The news and media shape culture by repeating ideas until they manifest into reality. The elite know it, they took control of the structuring. They run it. The ideascape is narrow. It's controlled. You don't watch the news to be informed, your intention is of that, but you watch it to be formed. They form you. Laughing live audiences, mocking talk show hosts, passionate children on the morning news all help form your opinion as you test your sanity against "society." Your TV perception of society.

Operation Mockingbird anyone?

As Orwellian as the Sinclair compilation video absolutely is, what about the countless other local TV news stations reading the same scripts? If you do your research you'll find these stations all have different owners and are even different affiliates. So where do these scripts come from? Who forces these down the pipeline or sells them? And we're supposed to pretend its just Sinclair? It's quite possible Sinclair is under attack from every angle because if you read the actual script from Sinclair, you'll find they are just asking you to questions the news. Which would do you and society quite a lot of good. The danger is, as you question the information assault from the media, you'll realize they are noise at best and but most likely the propagandists themselves.