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I agree. 232 people control the news that 277 million americans are allowed to see. ([1] from 2012). Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself. I think it is this control at a national level that the Sinclair news anchors were being told to warn people about, but the NYT has flipped the narrative on them, and now they're the bad guys. Genius, but unfortunate.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...



Your take doesn't jibe with Sinclair requiring their stations to air Boris Epshteyn and his, uh, "analysis".


> Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself.

Can you cite that? It sounds like prime material for Reddit's /r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/


Cite it? Fake News has been his mantra for awhile. I think you'll find it.


I don't see how "fake news" relates to media monopolization. It's just a fallacious outright rejection of unpleasant news.

In fact, Trump just stated he supports Sinclair's monopolization.


Monopolization is highly beneficial to facilitating fake news, you don't see that?


It's the other way around. Fake news is selective ignorance that distracts from the cancer eating away at our formerly-educated electorate.


One entity owning multiple outlets and therefore having the ability to broadcast a consistent message, as literally shown in the video, not only does not facilitate fake news, but can not? It acts as an antidote to fake news, in all cases?


"Fake news" is a symptom of consumer ignorance, and beneficial for facilitating monopolization.


Please answer my question.


Which one? They looked rhetorical to me.


It is not "are allowed to see" but "chose to consume". This whole "fake news" jazz is for the wrong reason.


Agreed. This has been no secret and a lot of people have absolutely been pounding this drum for a long time.

Bernie talking about it in 1988 as mayor of Burlington: https://youtu.be/KIQ_Kj7uBeg




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