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

A viral video compilation of local TV anchors is raising new concerns about the way Sinclair Broadcasting mixes news with conservative, partisan political opinion. And while it already reaches over a third of homes across the nation, the country’s largest owner of local TV stations is hoping to get bigger. William Brangham reports.

PBS NewsHour
Published on Apr 2, 2018

Corporate media may be your local news as well as national mainstream media corporations.

Take Action: Add your voice to the call to cancel the Sinclair-Tribune merger.  (By FreePress.net):  Local communities deserve locally produced media that meets their needs — not cheap cookie-cutter coverage that spreads propaganda and pads profits for an unscrupulous media empire.

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Of Interest:

Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy

by Robert McChesney

In this concise pamphlet, media scholar Robert W. McChesney “sound[s] a compelling warning that corporate control of the mass media has made ominous inroads into our democracy” (Ben Bagdikian).

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 “McChesney … has produced a [book] that, in the tradition of Tom Paine, systematically examines and refutes the myths that provide the ‘impenetrable ideological armor’ protecting corporate media from criticism.”

– In These Times

“McChesney’s work has been of extraordinary importance … It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights.”

– Noam Chomsky

“In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend.”

– Susan J. Douglas, author of Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

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