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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Wed Nov 28, 2018, 02:57 PM Nov 2018

Sinclair Broadcasting requires TV stations to defend tear gassing migrants....UGHHHH

Greg Sargent
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This is extraordinary.

Sinclair is now reportedly requiring dozens of local stations to air a segment that defends the tear-gassing of migrants and describes them as an “invasion of our country.”

I’m not sure we’ve figured out how to conceptualize this adequately.

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Sinclair Broadcasting requires TV stations to defend tear gassing migrants....UGHHHH (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Nov 2018 OP

Pretend news reporting as vehicle for toxic-level political propaganda? Hortensis Nov 2018 #1

Hortensis

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1. Pretend news reporting as vehicle for toxic-level political propaganda?

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Wed Nov 28, 2018, 03:02 PM

Nov 2018

The Hill provides both transcription and video. This is even worse than it sounds. Maxine Waters gets trashed, etcetera, etcetera.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/418651-sinclair-runs-must-run-segment-defending-use-of-tear-gas-at

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