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> “She tried to dispute what the police were saying, and one of them asked if she watched the news.”

American local TV is mostly mind poison. A lot of stations are owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, a corporation with an extreme right-wing agenda.

Europeans with their tame national broadcasters have no idea how insane a large part of American TV is with its obsession on local crime.

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I used to fly over to the US for work a lot, and even though I was usually in California, and got what I presume is a rather mild version of what you might run into elsewhere, seeing US TV was always a bizarre experience. It was like entering another dimension where every minor little thing was amplified ten times over.

Makes it seem even more bizarre that Americans aren't out in the streets rioting on a much more regular basis.

When everything is presented as a crisis, you get inured to it and nothing, no matter how dire, feels like a really emergency.

Let's be honest its a terribly lucrative business model that is spreading. Look at BFM TV, or worse, CNews, in France and tell me whats the difference between those and FoxNews?

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