Forget Breitbart: the White House has a new favorite rightwing media outlet

[turbinetree]

Fox News has such an influence on Donald Trump that US journalists now react to the president’s proclamations on Twitter by searching for the Fox and Friends segment that inspired them.

This intimate feedback loop between the Fox morning show and the president has made it “the most powerful TV show in America”, in the words of a New York Times critic. For Rupert Murdoch, a ruthless player in conservative politics across continents, such influence is striking. But it’s not new.

Liberal critics of the administration, however, are now turning the spotlight on what they see as a troubling new pro-Trump outlet. It’s not Fox News, with its angry anchors and aging audience. It’s Circa, a colorful digital media site aimed at viewers in their teens and 20s.

Circa is owned by the Sinclair Media Broadcast Group, which owns or operates more than 170 television stations across the country and calls itself America’s “leading local news provider”. As Sinclair expands, it has faced speculation that it could become a conservative challenger to Fox News.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jul/30/circa-sinclair-pro-trump-outlet-breitbart-fox-news

We need to get back some form on regulatory control of this monopolization of stations and other outlets being concentrated by just a few.




And this is one of many reasons why

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Scary.

[Solly Mack]

2. and ignorance marches on...

[sharedvalues]

3. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine

[mountain grammy]

4. John Oliver did a piece on this too.

We are media junkies and the media feeds us what they want us to know. For Americans, who like to be told what to think, this has worked quite well. For the rest of us, not so much.

[90-percent]

5. Their mind control is working well for them

At least forty years of "agenda driven corporate propaganda" has shaped the POV and perceptions and values since the majority of us were born.

Four out of five Doctors prefer Camels is now all regs are bad, climate chance is just a theory, the rich need more tax cuts to give us jobs, our jobs are taken by illegals, a wall will stop the invasion of mexican rapists and voting frauds, etc.

Our political system weeds out people of good will with a sincere desire to serve and exceptional scholastic and life accomplishments, and replaces them with sociopaths with a greed that now craves to return the world to feudalism. Mass extinctions and the collapse of the worlds ability to support most forms of life is but a small price to pay for feeding the greedlust of a remarkably small number of people.

-90% Jimmy

[mountain grammy]

6. 90% Jimmy... 100% correct!

The voters of Colorado replaced a decent, honest, hard working Senator Udall with a greedy sociopath, Cory Gardner, all with the blessings of the Denver Post, now serving Colorado's 1%.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Yes, and I think it goes deeper than the obvious RW "news" propaganda.

In subtle ways sitcoms and talk shows that are not obviously pushing RW lies, quietly reinforce the consumer society status quo.