Is a coordinated tool of indoctrination,
Or people you know think you are nuts regarding it as serving an agenda,
This may help put things in perspective.
The reason why I stopped watching news altogether, and life has been so much sweeter ever since. We got rid of our satellite cable subscription and we only watch what we choose to watch, and all in moderation. I have to keep up on current events for the line of work I’m in, but 5 or 10 minute tops per day on various news feeds is more than enough. No longer in front of the TV getting bombarded with all the BS 24 hour news cycles, which is probably 10% actual news and 90% BS commentary meant to shape public opinion. Yeah, we’re done with it. Free your mind, your ass will follow.
That type of video always makes me laugh 
I can give you an explanation, first hand, as to the reasons we see such things.
One thing to keep in mind is there are only a handful of companies that own the majority of media affiliate stations. The rest are owned and operated (O&O) by the corporations themselves. In order to keep their affiliations the non-O&O stations are contractually obligated to participate in some “promotional” campaigns. The networks will post online the tool kits with the scripts, graphical ideas, and basic templates for how any on-air spots should look.
Since the media world is a business, many station owners will just “go with the flow” so to speak. Some however will push what they agree with politically and ignore the things they don’t. Sinclair is one of the companies that is known for pushing the owner’s political views. They also have a major acquisition going through the approval process with the FCC (still heavily Left) right now.
While Sinclair isn’t what most would consider “mainstream media” they do own a large chunk of affiliates from various networks.
I so have to start using that phrase at work
So explain how this isn’t some form of indoctrination, because what you just described sure as hell sounds like it.
I’ve been saying it since high school (over 2 decades ago), and it’s a lovely phrase. 
By no means am I saying it isn’t indoctrination. It is obviously Sinclair pushing their views and trying to convince viewers in their markets to watch them over the competition. Heartland and Grey are about the only two affiliate station owners that come even close to being described as “neutral” but that’s only because they don’t like being forced to air time they could be selling to advertisers. Otherwise they push political agenda big time like all the others. There’s a reason more stations use blue in their logos/graphics than any other color and it isn’t for technical reasons.
Gotcha. I think more and more people are becoming switched on. For a lot of us, the gig is already up. For others, no red pill, no rabbit hole.
The mandated switch to digital TV transmission didn’t help much either. One company can now potentially own a channel from each of the major networks, as well a various number of non-network affiliated channels in each market. Created the perfect opportunity for monopoly, especially in states with smaller/spread out populations where over-the-air TV relies a lot on re-transmission towers. In some markets its not unusual to see all three big networks, plus FOX and sometimes CW all originating from the same transmitter and physical control room, with satellite newsroom locations in other cities thanks to the internet and fiber optic networks.
Best part (sarcasm) is our tax dollars paid for most of the transition costs for the switch to digital. Same with FCC spectrum “auctions” that are only halfway through their sales period. We are being screwed.
So how come we don’t suffer from group think? I mean here is a small enclave of firearms owners from across the country, all with different backgrounds, education levels, religions, yet we aren’t programmed bots. How did we slip through the cracks? How long until they notice that we aren’t assimilated?
Internet forums will be next on the hit list. Conservative talk radio has been on it for years.
Are you sure about that?
I see it here sometimes.
I tend to avoid the pro’s and con’s of discussing the quality of some parts and even if it is based upon my personal experience because, a random sample of one isn’t a trend nor does it speak to the overall quality of the brand.
Even still it seems to take a random sample of one on a bad day for the poo flinging to begin. Guys like Iraqguns usually step in and fix it rather quickly, usually in a firm and expert way.
that’s the difference between here and TOS.
reckon most of it has to do with parenting and a bit of our own internal self
I look at the trendy kids in school now and they are almost all liberal global warming idiots and I am in my mid 50s so they are still only doing what is trendy
where the rest of the folks vary quite a bit and ironic those that vary do like guns but they also mostly post life things on fb where the liberal ones just post talking points ? and whine and cry about shutting down others rather then the things they are doing
Actually you are right, but so he. When it comes to dogma of certain things, which ARs to buy, what optics to use, what lights are GTG, there is a fair bit of group think. Let’s be honest. Outside of that, then things tend to go completely off the rails. Hell, I’ve been involved in threads which you get into things that even in joking are, outside of accepted norms, then people get all kinds of weirded out. I mean, as a community, we are so fractured that we can’t come to the agreement that perhaps we need to vote for the lesser of evils to buy ourselves time to bring a better candidate to the fold. Instead we get guys screaming that they will hold the moral high ground and vote for ****ing Snoopy because candidate X doesn’t have their particular religious values, and they can’t vote for someone unless they believe that everyone should swing a dead cat counter clockwise over their head while jumping up and down under a fool moon. Where at the opposition is happy to vote for the candidate that is the lesser, or perhaps greater, evil to them to advance their long term goals.
This X 1000.
And that’s why we will never, ever, win politically. Spot on.
I tend to disagree with that summation.
Key difference is found here - the opposition is happy to vote for the candidate that is the lesser, or perhaps greater, evil to them to advance their long term goals - the difference is that many of us weren’t particularly happy, but we did it.
If it wasn’t for so many folks voting to stick it to the Republican Party in the primaries, we may have actually ended up with a President who could have done something about healthcare, and the budget. Instead we end up with ‘the lesser of two evils’ a President with the attention span of a one-year old with a dirty diaper.
I know, he’s playing 3-D chess.
And which candidate that failed in the primaries is standing tall today in Congress against Obamacare and gun laws? Oh yeah Jiminy CRICKET.
I don’t think any candidate had or has any intention to roll any of this crap back. They had several chances and fought AGAINST repeal.
There was a video a while ago running two different news broadcast side by side. The broadcast itself was old and about the current (at that time) fighting in the Balkans. The news person said something about side A burning and pillaging, raping and killing the people of a village of side B. The other news cast said literally word for word except switched the sides. This time side B was the aggressor
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