Because it's "Controlled Opposition".
We encourage you to stop watching traditional legacy TV because it's old and outdated including newspapers. Most of y'all already know that we made an article on this subject that all Western TV is nothing but propaganda. Only Boomers watch TV and read newspapers.
But for this article we want every Virginian to be aware that a lot of the local Virginian TV stations are mostly controlled opposition, notably the ones owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Virginia's terrestrial television market covers decentralized areas instead of the entire state unlike Utah and the Canadian provinces. They are supposed to be independent and unique and reporting the news and weather for that specific area where the station is located. All of Virginia's stations covers the areas of Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Richmond-Petersburg, Roanoke-Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Charlottesville.
There were many independent stations at one time, but there are very few left because of harsh and ridicules FCC regulations, licensing and costs of operation, which consequently makes the stations sell themselves to big corporations (not the affiliates ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.). The only independent station in Virginia is SKY4 (WSKY). The controversial "Telecommunications Act" was supposed to open the market to more and new radio/tv station ownership; instead, it created an opportunity for a media monopoly. Larger corporations could buy out smaller independent stations, which affected the diversity of news and music played on air. The Act was claimed to foster competition. Instead, it continued the historic industry consolidation reducing the number of major media companies from around 50 in 1983 to 10 in 1996, 6 in 2005, and 4 in 2022. An FCC study found that the Act had led to a drastic decline in the number of radio and tv station owners, even as the actual number of commercial stations in the United States had increased. This decline in owners and increase in stations has reportedly had the effect of Radio and TV homogenization, where programming has become similar across formats. Meaning all of the channels are not unique and all have same style and ideology.
Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair is the second largest terrestrial television operator in the United States, according to a 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local news and politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative [Civic Nationalist] direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."
The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC. Don't mean to be an "Anti-Trumper" but this is Trump's fault for the reduced coverage of local news and politics.
Sinclair owns 3 stations in the commonwealth, WSET 13 (ABC), WRLH-35 (FOX), and WTVZ-33 (MyTV) since the 2020s, all Sinclair owned stations in Virginia (and the United States) have increased race baiting news, encouraging covid death-shots, and non-stop Pro-Ukraine war propaganda, especially WSET, with its long-time ironic slogan "Coverage you can count on". That's a lie, that's not coverage, it's propaganda.
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| Set of WSET-13, typical studio sets costs around $700,000 to a million. |
According to the Washington Post (yes, we know)
Local TV news remains one of the most important sources of news for many Americans. More than 25 million viewers watch local news each night — a substantially larger audience than watch national cable TV news like MSNBC or Fox.
In fact, with the collapse of the print news industry, local TV news may be one of the few remaining reliable sources of local news coverage. Political scientist Erik Peterson, for instance, documents a 28 percent average decline in local newsroom staffs from 2004 to 2014.
That coincides with an increasing nationalization of politics at the local level.
It's Sinclair's "right" to do whatever they want with their stations because they're a corporation and its their properties, but it doesn't mean their immune to logical criticism. One of the reasons why Sinclair is doing this is because they get millions of more viewership than the American mainstream news channels of CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. They use that national news propaganda to broadcast it to those millions of people expecting local news. It's just a distraction, that's all it is.
Other TV operators like, E. W. Scripps Company and Nexstar Media Group aren't as bad, but still, they don't cover local news like they used to, and the local station market is close to a monopoly; and is the FCC even doing its job? In relevancy, iHeart Media is similar to Sinclair and acquires local radio stations left to right and mostly broadcasts post-modern music, promotes degenerate civic nationalist propaganda, and censors content.
Research has linked closures of local television and newspapers and declines in civic engagement of citizens, increases in government waste, and increases in political polarization. The decline of local news has also been linked to the increased "nationalization" of local elections. As citizens have fewer opportunities to read about local politics, they are attracted to national sources (such as cable news) and begin to interpret local politics via national politics. National news is nothing but a distraction. This is why today, Virginians do not engage in Virginian affairs, culture, or local politics, and always worried about "America's". It's pointless to worry about America, because there's nothing you can do about it. America is dead. Virginians need to worry about Virginia, its culture, people, and affairs. This is also why many Virginians do not get involved with their School Boards, Community Councils, Board of Supervisors meetings, and local/state-wide elections (both primary and general). And third-party candidates' barley or NEVER get any coverage. Why are they doing this? Because local and state is stronger and more important than national; this scares the opposition.
Studies have found that declines of employment in the local newspaper industry and tv stations have led to a massive reduction in the amount of political coverage by newspapers and tv. These ex-employees create their own reporting business via online because of more opportunities and less restrictions, they often make news blogs or upload videos of news online. It's cheaper to create your own little studio for $15,000 and earn the same advertising revenue than a multi-million-dollar mainstream tv network. This is one of the reasons why traditional tv is dying. Chicago-native Tim Pool's Timcast is an example of this, as he used to be a journalist for Vice, he quit, and then made his own journalist platform.
Ironically, Futurama predicted the death of traditional media in the episode "Attack of the Killer App". In the next 20 years, traditional TV (sooner or later) will die.
If TV is dead, newspapers are dying, and radio on life-support, what is the future of local news?
Online, yes, we know not everyone has internet, but it's the only way. It is not recommended to use big tech social media like Facebook or Twitter for your local news; big tech is known to censor and even blacklist local news and distract people with national (and international) news. There are decentralized websites that are dedicated and centered around your local area posting local and state-wide news. What's better is using an RSS feed (if the website supports it). Even Virginian newspapers, both local and state, like The News & Advance and Richmond Times are moving to the internet and created website versions, because they're aware that times are changing. If your tired of the increasing coverage of national news, you can find local news on dedicated websites and it's better to subscribe to them via RSS.
Article written by Jane Doe
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