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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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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Replying to @aweiss
It used to be done by locals and nationals all the time. This one from years ago could be today! (Gun control) Aired during the nightly news that all station affiliates were required to run.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vtz_On1S44 …
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
That’s not local news. That’s network programming. John Chancellor was a commentator for NBC, and local newscasts had nothing to do with it.
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Replying to @aweiss @SharylAttkisson
It’s also from (I’m guessing) 1986 or so. John Chancellor was the last one to do regular commentary in a network newscast, and I can’t think of any of them that have done it since. Any more recent examples?
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I would just say that the modern examples are more like: when we used ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morell for commentary the same time he was paid for PR firm started by Clinton loyalists without disclosing that--on news shows that were required to run on all CBS affiliates.
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