First off, self-aggrandizing is marketing 101 to begin with.

Second off, that's not the extent of what they were doing.

The videos highlighting the 'uniform delivery' of the message don't seem to point out that the purpose was to get people to send feedback to their local stations if they feel they're reporting fake news.

You'll also note that, despite it being in the actual segments, nobody is actually TALKING about that in the messages. You'll also notice it's being reported on by mainstream sources in a negative light. There's more at play with it than it would seem.

@Beemann It was actually kind of difficult for me to actually find a full version of the spot. https://youtu.be/eFB_Rw9dVEg?t=48

Basically, the people who were covering this (Keep in mind, it started with Brian Stelter at CNN's coverage) conveniently left out the call to action in the statement. The whole thing was telling people to hold their local stations accountable for their reporting instead of just abandoning them.

Final note - If someone wants to report on something like this, but only wants to give you snippets, and no source material, I.E. This memo, or the Google 'Anti-Diversity Screed', get skeptical. Constant awareness of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is the best antidote to it.

https://m.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/KOMO-fake-news-Sinclair-promos-12792032.php has the full written memo

The anchors themselves didn't like it, because it reeks of propaganda more than anything else. Has there been a decline in fake news from Sinclair Media Outlets after this incident?

Is that why? Or is it because the message goes against partisanship?

Keep in mind, that's a report from a Seattle Station. One of the lines in the memo was directly referring to this moment. https://youtu.be/OJ9ce-yMEfc?t=18

The article that was linked was actually based in Seattle, an extremely liberal city.

"This is an attack on our democracy" is not anti-partisan speech, it's alarmist and propagandistic

Yes, and conservatives were also upset about Sinclair

'This is an attack on our democracy' is not in the script.

There was bipartisan concern

It was a patch update for NPCs on both sides. :/

Specifically designed that way.

Sorry. "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
When you have a uniform message downplaying alt media

They were downplaying MSNBC pundits

as a company that owns NBC affiliates.

Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control 'exactly what people think'...This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.

They were downplaying sharing of information on social media, then extended it to traditional media and said "but we can fix it"

'He can control exactly what people think, and that's our job' - Mika

Has the rate of fake news on Sinclair stations slowed?

Have you SEEN social media? they're not wrong.

Give me just a second here I'll show you.

This friend of mine posts a LOT of shit, I'm trying to find a few of the posts I've had to call him out on...

I'm not that active in social media primarily due to the fact of how accurate the line in question is:
``But we're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.``

I mean hell, an easy go-to is Occupy Democrats.

I don't see this as them saying 'never trust anything but us', or specifically shitting on alternative media. Most of what they are talking about seems to be social media and a direct reference to a mainstream source.

I see it as a marketing ploy by a mainstream media source that wants the branding but not the workload of a trustworthy news source

I'm going to have to ask you to break that down...

because otherwise, my question is: is this okay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuuIPcQ9_I

Because THAT advertisement doesn't have any specific call to action, it basically just implies 'we don't lie'.

>CNN
I laughed

We don't need to know about the juice, jasse.

Oh yeah I remember that lol.

nobody belives MSM anymore.
and thats big issue for holding monopoply on peoples oppinions and information.

very smmart, Jasse. You insserted yourselff into the discusssion quite efffectively.

The topic isn't about whether we can trust the media