Problematic Stuff

[pErvinalia]

Remember, no posting videos and expecting people to watch them. We need a summary and notations of the time during the video where important points are made. Well, at least that’s what some forum police told me, but that probably just applies to the bad guys... so, carry on.

God you are a whiner. Hermit wanted a summary of a video you posted that was something like 30 minutes to an hour long. Not 3 minutes.

[Hermit]

Remember, no posting videos and expecting people to watch them. We need a summary and notations of the time during the video where important points are made. Well, at least that’s what some forum police told me, but that probably just applies to the bad guys... so, carry on.

No. That applies to long Youtube clips. In your cases they went on for 30+ minutes. Mentioning the salient points made therein, and where they were made seems a reasonable demand to me.

ETA: Ninjad by the fucking troll, damnit. Go, do something useful, pErv - have a chat with your neighbour about her TV. Tell her you'll pleasure her if she invests in some good earphones. Or - if she prefers - tell her you won't pleasure her if she invests in some good earphones. Alternatively, get Lak to do it for you.

[laklak]

Tell her to Skype me. It'll be fun. Trust me.

[pErvinalia]

I know you, Lak...

[Forty Two]

The self avowed troll bitches about trolling? Lol

Well I only troll trolls and dishonest people like you. Cunt trolls everyone

Oh yes, you are the good kind of troll, fighting the evildoers with righteous trolling! It just so happens that righteousness is in solid agreement with your view of things, which is a happy coincidence. It’s not that you are a dishonest jerk, who trolls and justifies it through absurd rationalizations, no! You are the Rationalia Paladin, charging with sword drawn to save the forum from the bad guys!

Do you need a safe space?

Yes, one where I can safely watch in awe as you skewer the infidel and other forum sinners. To see you wield your monumental intellect and your rapier wit as you mete out your righteous fury. Go get ‘em o’ master of trolls!

[pErvinalia]

Will do. Speaking of trolling, both Hermit and I addressed your repeated trolling of him about asking for a summary of very long videos. Do you have anything to say about that, or are you going to continue to trot out this inane trolling every month or so?

[Hermit]

Speaking of trolling, both Hermit and I addressed your repeated trolling of him...

I have WHAT?

[Seabass]

The US descends further and further into bigoted, ultranationalist fascism in the vein of 1930s Germany and Italy, and 42 is worried about the goddamn SJWs and soy boys.

Vox: Sinclair, the pro-Trump, conservative company taking over local news, explained

Sinclair reaches 40 percent of households — and soon will reach 72 percent.


This month, the 193 local TV affiliates owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group began running a series of promotional segments, warning of a scourge of “fake news” promoted by “members of the media [who] use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think.’”

The segments, which echo the Trump administration’s anti-media rhetoric, are eerily uniform across all Sinclair affiliates, so much so that Deadspin’s Timothy Burke was able to edit them together into a supercut showing dozens of Sinclair anchors saying the exact same words.

How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media: https://t.co/iLVtKRQycL pic.twitter.com/dMdSGellH3

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) March 31, 2018
The video is just the most recent example of Sinclair stations’ strong partisan tilt. A recent paper by Emory University political scientists Gregory Martin and Josh McCrain found that when Sinclair buys a local station, its local news program begin to cover more national and less local politics, the coverage becomes more conservative, and viewership actually falls — suggesting that the rightward tilt isn’t enacted as a strategy to win more viewers but as part of a persuasion effort.

A report from the Pew Research Center last year found that 37 percent of Americans say they frequently rely on local TV for news — not far behind the 45 percent of Americans who say they get news from Facebook, and ahead of the 33 percent who say they look at news websites and apps, the 28 percent who watch cable news, the 26 percent who watch national nightly news, and the 18 percent who still read print newspapers.

That makes the partisan tilt of the hundreds of local TV stations that Sinclair owns concerning, especially since the company’s channels reach 40 percent of Americans.

The uproar over Sinclair’s “fake news” editorial prompted furious rebuttals from the company and an intervention from the president, who spoke up in the company’s defense while attacking CNN and NBC — a somewhat confusing comparison for him to make, as Sinclair owns some 25 NBC affiliates:

So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2018
But Sinclair’s anti-media promos are hardly an aberration. Sinclair has been steadily growing and acquiring new affiliates in more and more markets for decades. It has, in the process, spread a conservative message enforced by mandates on local news anchors, including requirements that they air partisan commentaries by figures like Boris Epshteyn, Sinclair’s chief political analyst and a former Trump aide in both the 2016 campaign and the White House.

Here, for example, is Epshteyn condemning cable news anchors for their use of “curse words” when reporting on President Trump’s description of Haiti and much of Africa as “shithole” countries. “The allegation is that President Trump said the word once in a private meeting. How is it okay to repeat it and splash it onscreen hundreds of times?” Epshteyn asks.

Epshteyn produces as many as nine conservative, pro-Trump segments a week. The “Bottom Line With Boris” videos are “must-runs,” meaning all 193 Sinclair stations must broadcast them.

Another recent Sinclair segment featured former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka ranting about the “deep state” and its efforts to sabotage Trump, and was produced by Kristine Frazao, a former reporter and anchor for the Russian propaganda network RT.

The company is set to become more powerful with its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, which would add 42 stations to Sinclair’s 193 existing affiliates. The deal has to secure approval from the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Sinclair has already agreed to sell a number of stations to stay below the FCC’s requirement that TV station owners reach no more than 39 percent of US households with TVs.

Let me repeat that: Sinclair is hitting the absolute maximum level of viewer reach that a broadcasting conglomerate of its kind is allowed to have under federal regulations. The 39 percent figure is actually an underestimate because the FCC undercounts reach provided by ultra-high frequency (UHF) channels; measured accurately, the Tribune deal will let Sinclair reach 72 percent of households, Mother Jones’s Andy Kroll notes.

And unlike Fox News, Sinclair programming comes to people on local TV, on channels affiliated with ABC or NBC or CBS or Fox, many of which have existed in their communities for decades before Sinclair bought them. Millions of viewers of those stations have no idea that they’re watching conservative editorials rather than normal local news, which gives Sinclair incredible power to persuade viewers of conservative ideas.


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https://www.vox.com/2018/4/3/17180020/s ... -affiliate

[pErvinalia]

Speaking of trolling, both Hermit and I addressed your repeated trolling of him...

I have WHAT?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... d#p1761499

[Hermit]

Speaking of trolling, both Hermit and I addressed your repeated trolling of him...

I have WHAT?

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... d#p1761499

Ah. The ETA, "Ninjad by the fucking troll, damnit." referred to the author of the post above mine, you doofus.

[pErvinalia]

Yes I know that. But 42 has repeatedly trolled you over the video incident. And my bet is, after both you and I set him straight here, that he will keep on trolling you with it.

[Hermit]

Yes I know that. But 42 has repeatedly trolled you over the video incident. And my bet is, after both you and I set him straight here, that he will keep on trolling you with it.

Non sequitur, and stop lying, (/me suppresses chuckle) you troll. Point is, I have not "addressed [his] repeated trolling".

[pErvinalia]

Can't tell if taking the piss or serious (or temporarily scatter brained)..

[Forty Two]

Will do. Speaking of trolling, both Hermit and I addressed your repeated trolling of him about asking for a summary of very long videos. Do you have anything to say about that, or are you going to continue to trot out this inane trolling every month or so?

[Sean Hayden]

Please beware that the level of racism seen in these documents can be shocking and disturbing to modern readers. 

Surely not if they're readers though eh?