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Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim

ShootMeDead · 1.8M views · 2018-04-02 · 1:39

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Overview

A short compilation showing many local news anchors across different stations reading the same scripted statement verbatim. It is presented as evidence of centralized message control in local media.

On Hacker News

Used as an example in threads about media consolidation and distrust of news, though many commenters cite it critically or only as a talking point.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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Media, journalism & propaganda
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What people said

jefflombardjr · 2018-10 · Recommendation

This article does a good job of drawing parallels between the book and reality in a short amount of time. I feel like the article is just scratching the surface though. > Television was transforming the news into a rapid and proliferating series of images, a form of entertainment that prized ‘the unreal’ and the ‘more or less totally irrelevant’. You can contest facts, he said, but not images. Noam Chomsky has some excellent work in this area. It can be very very dry reading, but very informative. Check out manufacturing consent [LINK] In the same vein and much more entertaining is this video that compares local news channels: [VIDEO]

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aeternum · 2024-04 · Criticism

I find the opposite to be the case. The large news orgs with all the paywalls are now mostly used to push a narrative. This has been the case for years, best demonstrated by this clip: [VIDEO] The free internet still exists, and is not paywalled.

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rglover · 2024-02 · Criticism

I find it interesting that last week, we had a nationwide AT&T outage and one of the causes speculated on local news outlets (within a couple hours) was a solar flare [1]. Now, less than a week later, we have articles in the New Yorker priming thoughts about solar storms. Why is this relevant? Consider where that speculation started: local news networks [2]. It's worth reading Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars [3] if you haven't already to understand why it's worth me mentioning this. Easily dismissed as "conspiracy nonsense," but it's worth asking "why this, why now?" [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK]

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