The Sinclair thing with the anchors all doing the same story is a practice I've seen going back at least a decade. I've just never seen it used to mobilize a political message. Usually just centralized content production by mother company.
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Replying to @neontaster
But was it a *partisan* media message really? It sounded like they were trying to get people to do some digging themselves instead of just believing the 1st thing you hear
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*was it, in and of itself, as nefarious as the liberal blue checkmarks' hysteria suggests? I think
@SharylAttkisson would argue no and/or at least suggest the response to it is at least as troubling.3 replies 2 retweets 11 likes -
Ask yourself: who has motivation, access and resources to access these station promos in cities across the US, to edit them together, to falsely present them as if "stories," and try to start a social media/news hysteria? And why?
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson @BlameBigGovt and
honest question...but hasnt this been a Conan Obrien skit for a while now?
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Yes. When I worked at CBS local years ago same thing--they fed us stories and intros daily, it's considered an affiliate service. We needed the news to fill air time because we had a small staff so we used the stories.
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