• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    What the heritage foundation and others do is not special. Everyone can do it. That’s what makes it so effective. Listen to me, you don’t need to pay millions of dollars in research. Heritage foundation is not on my bridge or putting stickers on my neighbors car or creating Facebook groups or taking over Reddit communities. They nudge things but it’s the people doing it. Heritage foundation steers. But there isn’t anything mystical or impossible to figure out here. But the left have to get on the same page. Coming online every day to read another article and then still waste time commenting and reading other comments is just not going to cut it. We need to call this stuff out as often as possible. The next election is around the corner.

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        17 hours ago

        That first one, anyone can do. Just like how a real estate agent created a libsotiktok. Those are small instances of what the right are doing. Almost all of it you can do yourself.

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          17 hours ago

          That first one, anyone can do.

          Really? Anyone can order local TV news stations across the country to read scripted propaganda of their choosing? You’re just going to straight-up deny Sinclair Broadcast Group’s unbalanced political power exists?

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            I don’t think that’s what you think it is. Instead of paying multiple individual script writers for the same story across multiple small stations they probably have one script writer whose script gets reused for each station. I bet news stations buy scripts from each other all the time to save money and time. The anchors are not just speaking off the cuff. Someone has to write the script. Why reinvent the wheel. If you have a larger station fully staffed, use those resources and trickle down to the smaller stations who don’t have the resources.

            I was speaking to the fact that someone cut that up and implied it’s some secret brainwashing effort. I’m saying anyone can take clips and infer whatever they want to people. It worked on you