A conservative, rich white guy who owns Sinclair Group is helping Trump present his "alternate facts" as news.
Apparently the Sinclair Group has been forcing news anchors across the country to read promotional scripts as news. And they are all using the same script to say all the other news stations are presenting what Trump calls "Fake News" -- which Trump trots out to...
- stop us finding out about all those connections his people have to Russia;
- sleeping with strippers and Playboy bunnies
- claim the crowd at his inauguration was larger than President Obama's.
Please give this video two minutes.
If this doesn't represent a rich white Trump supporter attempting to brainwash 1/3rd of the country, then what is it?
Sinclair Group's even has ex-Trump surrogates, presenting Trump's views as facts (see second video below) -- when it's already been established Trump lies for sport.
TRUMP OPENLY BRAGS ABOUT LYING TO JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S FACE
This is dangerous.
The Sinclair Group has the ability to turn 1/3 of television news stations into right-wing propaganda sites.
And Right Wing websites are conspiracy theory generating machines. Not only do the (mostly white) people that watch them believe in Trump's "alternate facts," they also believe in things like "Pizza-gate" --that theory that had Hillary Clinton running a pedophile ring out of a Pizza place.
I'm not kidding about Pizza-gate. That's a real thing. And Trump supporter Roseanne Barr who recently brought her television show ROSEANNE back to television last week, made a loose reference to Pizza-gate just last week.
We cannot afford to have this level of crazy pumped out over the evening news and have people mistake it for news.
I'm thinking that the chances of having some sort of regulatory agency in the government coming in to stop this madness while the republicans are in charge are probably nil - even though I sense some "moderate" republicans are afraid of Trump's level of crazy just about now.
I guess we will see.
Or maybe our fourth estate will prove able to clean its own house. PBS and other news affiliates are pushing back.
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