Watch as local TV stations across the country present the same script for their independent editorials denouncing fake news spread by social media.

Kudos to Steve Franssen, who tweeted a video showing the exact same words being used by local TV stations all across the country, and affiliated with all the networks, disparaging “one-sided news stories plaguing our country.” The “sharing of false and biased news” on social media is a “danger to  democracy.” The video is less than two minutes long and becomes hilarious.

This is what mind control looks like. pic.twitter.com/WVHFy9qDZ0

— Steve Franssen рџ‡єрџ‡ё (@SteveFranssen) March 31, 2018

Russian propaganda outlet RT has produced a similar video of local new using the same hackneyed script to talk about Easter:

Which is the greater danger: fake news or fake independent media?

Hat tip: Clarice Feldman