Steve Schirripa of The Sopranos helps John Oliver spread the word about Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of local TV stations in the country. Widespread station ownership doesn’t sound alarming on the face of it, but Sinclair uses stations across the country to spread the very worst in the right-wing political agenda and fear-mongering – and it’s fact-free too!
Your trusted local news anchors now present stories created by luminaries such as Mark Hyman and Boris Epstein, a diabolical stealth tactic that makes Fox News look like a bastion of honesty, if only because Fox doesn’t pretend – convincingly, to be anything other than what it is.
Steve Schirripa of The Sopranos helps present a ‘Probably Should Run’ ad for local news stations that have been assimilated by Sinclair. Because of Sinclair’s insidious nature, a great deal of their power comes from the illusion that the ‘must show’ and ‘terror alerts’ they require, originate at your own station.