Here's a sample of some of the propaganda Sinclair requires its stations to broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6uKOS3S2E

Seattle's KOMO news crams all of these ridiculous political segments (including Clinton smear-pieces and other alt-right recruitment videos) into their 2-4am slots just to keep too many viewers from seeing them.

I often wonder why they don't air these videos at peak hour, prefixed with a "you're about to see some bullshit - call your representatives" warning. It's better to fight this kind of public enemy on an open field.

I guess it's nice to think about, but that would be insubordinate to their management/ownership. Individuals who execute plans like that lose out big time and get quickly replaced.

The Sinclair move to dominate airwaves and include media-agenda-framed-as-individual-opinion-pieces on TV news is very concerning to me. It's disappointing that this rule change will only help them continue their domination.

But I wonder if this might incidentally happen to be the right move for the government to make? The flow of information and news is very different today from the landscape that existed in the 1970s. Maybe letting investment flow into some of these businesses makes sense.

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