Sinclair's Local News Propaganda Bomb

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🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Erik Wemple of The Washington Post about Sinclair Broadcasting, Trump's recent attacks on the press, and the decline of local news. Don't forget to vote for Trumpcast to win a Webby! And come check out Slow Burn Live in NYC! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pick a reporter, please.
0:02.9	You could pick a reporter, a Baltic reporter, ideally.
0:07.4	Real news, not fake news.
0:09.4	Go ahead.
0:10.8	President Trump, I jumped to the defense
0:12.5	of sin-clair broadcasting.
0:14.4	The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common
0:18.2	on social media.
0:19.6	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
0:21.9	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
0:24.4	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
0:30.7	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man
0:37.0	with the unlimited power to pardon anybody who
0:40.4	might testify against him.
0:42.3	Donald Trump, I'm Jacob Weisberg.
0:45.6	So one of the ways you know you're
0:47.4	in a democratic country is that there's
0:49.4	a healthy independent media.
0:51.6	One of the ways you know if you're not
0:53.6	in a genuinely democratic country is that independent media
0:56.9	is absent or endangered.
0:59.3	There's official or unofficial state media,
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