> > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:55:53 +0100 > From: Mark Hancock <m...@memecortex.net> > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: [spectre] this is extremely dangerous > to our democracy > Message-ID: > <CAPBEg=t4mSMwR1LK6pV-omx5xButmC1HJBO67dSy6Qa4fSPY3w > @mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Wow, unbelievable, except it really isn't. You'd think they'd have at least > asked the local writers to break it up a bit more. In an era when we have > to even question our own trusted sources of news (I find myself unpicking > Guardian stories more and more these days) it's amazing that they think > people won't notice this blatant propaganda. > > On 5 April 2018 at 08:37, AGF poemproducer <a...@poemproducer.com> wrote: > > > wow look at these > > > > > From: J?nos Sug?r <s...@c3.hu> > > > Subject: [spectre] this is extremely dangerous to our democracy > > > Date: 4 Apr 2018 11:19:27 EEST > > > To: nettim...@kein.org > > > > > > a similar one created by ThinkProgress: > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50pLTvwO80&feature=youtu.be > > > > > https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI<https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI> (by Timothy > > Burke, the video director at Deadspin) > > > > > > Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair- > > news-anchors-script.html > > > > > _
While I'm no apologist for Sinclair and it's goals, this homogenization of news media is nothing new. In 1961, Daniel Boorstin wrote how corporate and government sources would package "pseudo-events" and call it news. It has become so prevalent that late-night comedian Conan O'Brien used to do a bit remarkably similar to the Sinclair video currently being circulated. -- - *Anthony Stephenson* *http://anthonystephenson.org/* <http://anthonystephenson.org/>
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