{"id":168234,"date":"2018-04-04T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=168234"},"modified":"2018-04-06T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:37:04","slug":"the-dangerous-to-our-democracy-viral-video-and-its-hypocritical-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=168234","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cDangerous to Our Democracy\u201d Viral Video and its Hypocritical Media Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vigilant Citizen &#8212; April 3, 2018<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fake-news-mainstream-media-warns.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-168136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fake-news-mainstream-media-warns.png\" alt=\"fake-news mainstream media warns\" width=\"540\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>A video compilation proving that countless local news networks read the same exact scripts\u00a0around the United States is a chilling reminder of the Orwellian, heavily controlled nature of mass media. Even more chilling: The media coverage of this video.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWLjYJ4BzvI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<h5>Yes, what is happening in this video is indeed \u201cextremely dangerous to our democracy\u201d. The viral video, posted online by Deadspin, mashes together segments from a variety of television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group \u2013 the largest television station operator in the United States. Dozens of newscasters, reduced to the state of word-parroting drones, are seen reciting the same script, one that obviously came from \u201cabove\u201d. The creepy, Orwellian vibe emanating from the video and its clever editing clearly highlights the fact that mass media is owned by a few mega-companies.<\/h5>\n<h5>In a twist of irony, the script read by the newscasters ominously warns viewers about \u201cfake and biased news circulating on social media\u201d, the same way Big Brother frowns against \u201cthoughtcrime\u201d in Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>.<\/h5>\n<h5>While the video highlights the propaganda function of mass media, it was spun by mass media to generate \u2026 propaganda.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Media Spin<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/the-dangerous-to-our-democracy-viral-video-and-its-hypocritical-media-coverage\/\">Continues &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the video highlights the propaganda function of mass media, it was spun by mass media to generate \u2026 propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168236,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168234\/revisions\/168236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}