The Shame of Local News

Please tell your friends and family to stop getting their news from the television.

Local news outlets are one of the biggest scams in America. You can depend on them for updates on weather, traffic, local sports teams and violent crimes that delude you into fearing the world around you.

It might not sound like much, but there’s a reason billionaires and their corporations—Hello, Sinclair Broadcasting Group!—have spent the last 40 years…