from headquarters social media exploded what's really happening here the big picture let's ask mark crispin miller new york university professor of media studies welcome professor a great debate where the of mark after networks were seduced into embedded coverage of the iraq invasion and really failing to read the room in the twenty sixteen presidential election national established media have lost credibility are the local news people reciting this corporate script more believable. well i mean that this is a complicated situation because on the one hand it is absolutely true that sinclair is too big it owns too many stations no company should own that many t.v. stations it's also true that sinclair is is run in a kind of ruthless top down way and it is a right wing propaganda machine these charges are all completely accurate. however i don't think that this big hoo ha over the various local anchors being forced to recite the same script. is really motivated by a concern for media democracy and the first amendment rights of journalists you know obviously the local anchors all over the country bein