Local news anchors across the country are reading from the exact same script on Joe Biden.

Local news anchors across the country are reading from the exact same script on Joe Biden.

Local television news broadcasters are airing suspiciously similar attacks on Joe Biden’s mental acuity and how it will affect the coming election—and it appears to be part of a coordinated effort.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group owns or operates 185 local television stations across the country, and dozens of their stations aired a segment from national correspondent Matthew Galka citing a Wall Street Journal article that makes dubious attacks on Biden’s age and mental awareness. The stations that aired the segment introduced it using startlingly similar, if not identical language, the Popular Information and Public Notice newsletters reported.

It’s not the first time Sinclair, owned by right-wing businessman David D. Smith, has appeared to be running a conservative propaganda campaign. Infamously in 2018, dozens of the company’s TV stations were caught airing an identical editorial about the dangers of biased and false news. This time around, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, as well as Murdoch’s cable news stations Fox News and Fox Business, have gotten in on the act.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Sure, but this is what right-wing outlets do.

    It’s what all TV news does…

    CNNs new owners were very upfront about wanting to become just like Faux, and that was like 2-3 years ago.

    “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

    https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

    But even before that, they had a huge pro wealthy/corporate bias.

    So yes, conservative media is a lot worse than “moderate” media, but they’re all owned by literal billionaires who pal around with each other and only care about money.

    They’re more on each others side than anyone else. So when calling them out, don’t discriminate.

    They’re all doing the same thing