You can form any opinion you wish: I can't find anything in the promos that most people wouldn't agree with: the news should check our facts, be accurate, there's been too many mistake etc. Which part do you find ethically problematic?
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
"Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control 'exactly what people think'...This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.” That’s completely false in the local news space, and extremely hypocritical...
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Replying to @aweiss @SharylAttkisson
…because the ONLY local ownership group pushing personal bias is Sinclair itself, with the must-run opinion pieces from Boris, Mark Hyman, and the Islamophobic “terror alert desk” segments.
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Replying to @aweiss @SharylAttkisson
Did Sinclair ever correct the unsourced “ISIS slices nine youths in half in Mosul” report? Because that nonsense is not journalism. I’d never let a reporter fresh out of college get away with that, but Sinclair forces local stations to run it. That’s journalistic malpractice.
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Replying to @aweiss
I don't know what you're talking about.. but are you saying Sinclair gave ISIS a bad name?
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
I’m saying the Terror Alert Desk segments are filled with unsourced stories like this one from a site called “Iraqi News.” https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isis-slices-nine-youth-with-chinsaw-mosul/ … I could point to any random site on the internet and put it on TV too. That’s unethical journalism.
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Replying to @aweiss @SharylAttkisson
And are you actually arguing that the Boris/Mark opinion pieces aren’t a corporate attempt "to push their own personal bias and agenda to control 'exactly what people think’?”
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Replying to @aweiss @SharylAttkisson
Because that’s, you know, the whole point of commentary — to change opinions. And the ONLY commentary allowed on Sinclair stations are the pieces that come from corporate.
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Replying to @aweiss
Along with some of the one-sided Must Run news shows/segments consultants pushed out without disclosure by networks, etc.
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
Are you insinuating something similar happens at other station groups? Because I worked for 4 of them, and have good friends at all the other big ones. I can say definitively that ONLY Sinclair forces stations to run commentary or stories like that.
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I will say that the networks "force" commentary that isn't disclosed as such every week in their Must Run news programming. Like I said, room for debate on this.
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
I’m talking about promos or commentary. I’d love to see an example of a must-run piece from any other local ownership group. Please back up that assertion with evidence.
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Replying to @aweiss
I didn't make that assertion and am not. I am not familiar with other station groups and don't know of any.
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