The third and last thing tonight is a story that just came out today. Russian "free press" concepts have rooted in a previously unheralded direction in the last few years. A right wing outfit called Sinclair Broadcasting  now owns more local TV stations in America 2.0 than any one else and Sinclair's corporate guidance comes with identical scripts castigating the plague of "fake news" that comes from anyone insufficiently pro-Trump/Putin, which scripts Sinclair's anchors are required to read, and do, identically. When my son texted me the links and I had read them, I responded "We're doomed" and we are. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

We are, in expletive language, fuck-ed.