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The far-right news platform One America News got seriously bad news on Friday as DirecTV announced it will be dropping the conservative channel from its lineup in April dealing a huge blow to the pro-Trump network. Continue reading “One America News Could Lose 90% Of Viewers After DirecTV Severs Ties”
Conservative commentator Jamie Allman has resigned and his show at a Sinclair-owned station in St. Louis, The Allman Report, has been cancelled in the aftermath of his tweet threatening to “ram a hot poker up (Parkland high school shooting massacre survivor) David Hogg’s ass.”
Mind you – Allman’s tweet was a threat of sexual violence on a 17-year-old minor.
The tweet was eventually deleted and Allman took his Twitter account ‘private’ but not before the world screen-capped it.
It’s not exactly clear what kicked off Allman’s unhinged anger towards a 17-year-old high school senior he’d presumably never met. But then, with some of the nuts on TV today, its hard to understand a lot of what gets said.
Of course, the real reason Allman is toast is he immediately began hemorrhaging advertisers.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Upon further investigation, our franchise partner has stopped its advertising. Thank you again for your concern.— Ruth’s Chris (@RuthsChris) April 7, 2018
Posted at 8:30am Friday:
We have immediately suspended all spending related to Jaime Allman indefinitely. We will not be deploying those dollars back into the station. We want to make a clear point, that this behavior is unacceptable.— The Gellman Team (@TheGellmanTeam) April 6, 2018
This is a most unfortunate situation and what has taken place is contrary to PALM Health’s core values. We have contacted the radio station not only to voice our concern, but we have also stopped advertising on Jamie Allman’s show.— PALM Health (@PalmHealthSTL) April 6, 2018
Jamie Allman made his account private. Guess he doesn’t like it when people take him to task for tweeting about sodomizing kids who survived school schoolings. Real titan of media right there.— Brooke Foster (@lonesometoast) April 6, 2018
I don’t usually watch long video clips on the interwebs (short attention span, don’t you know), but I did find this segment by John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight to be compelling.
I think a lot of Americans would be surprised to find out that their local news is being thoughtfully manipulated by a conservative conglomerate.
Oliver explains how Sinclair Broadcast Group is setting itself up to be the country’s largest owner of local TV stations, and with that ownership the company is dictating content and political bias.
As Oliver points out, with Fox News you know you’re getting a conservative viewpoint. Not so when it comes to these local stations.
With in-house created “editorials,” daily “Terrorist Alert Desk” scares and clips that are dispatched to the stations labeled “must run,” local viewers are being told what to think without really understanding why the content is being presented.
Watch the clip below.