Watch Sinclair Broadcast News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison
Last month, local television journalists across the country were told to read the same thing: a script from the owner of their stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, declaring that biased and false news is extremely dangerous for democracy. Its a talking point straight out of President Donald Trumps Twitter feed, and when Deadspin made a video syncing more than a dozen clips of anchors at Sinclair-owned television stations all reading the same thing in unison, it quickly went viral. Of course it did:
Here was the Trump-supporting owner of the largest television empire in the country flexing its muscles, brazenly (if cartoonishly) trying to scare Americans into mistrusting all other sources of information.
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Watch Sinclair Broadcast Group News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison