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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 02:14 PM
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Sinclair Corp. is the poster boy for corporate fascism (PBS story)
They centralize all their news production in Maryland. The national news, sports, and the weather are all piped out of this central headquarters into the local affiliates. Yet, it's made to look like it's all local. The local affiliates have a bare-bones staff that goes out to get footage and interviews of local events - but most of the broadcast all come out of Maryland.

They also have a weekly spot called 'The Point' where Mark Hyman (Sinclair VP of corporate relations) gets on does a right-wing rant. He likes the phrase the 'loony left'... Once again this is beamed into all the local markets.
Here is this fuckface's picture. It's pretty easy to tell he's a phony, and a fascist to boot.


This is a picture of the head newscaster who is piped into all the local affiliates. He's creepy. He is the face of modern American corporate fascism.


For more information here's the newshour story.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec03/newscentral_12-11.html

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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 02:17 PM
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1. Can you imagine how much money PBS would bring in if they ran F 9/11
for pledges? But their corporate owners would never allow that.
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Unstuck In Time Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-11-04 02:31 PM
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2. Gawd, I wish I had the brains to be a hacker!!
I would definitely try to disrupt their "central location," consequences be damned.

The reality is, unfortunately, that I'm struggling just to transfer my old software from one laptop computer to another without losing all my data. I'm only a danger to myself! LOL :7

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