Watch Sinclair Broadcast News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison

Last month, local television journalists across the country were told to read the same thing: a script from the owner of their stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, declaring that “biased and false news” is extremely dangerous for democracy. It’s a talking point straight out of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, and when Deadspin made a video syncing more than a dozen clips of anchors at Sinclair-owned television stations all reading the same thing in unison, it quickly went viral. Of course it did: Here was the Trump-supporting owner of the largest television empire in the country flexing its muscles, brazenly (if cartoonishly) trying to scare Americans into mistrusting all other sources of information.

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Watch Sinclair Broadcast Group News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses’ Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison