…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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Replying to @aweiss
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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But I'm not sure Must Run programming carries the nefarious connotation you seem to think it does. The networks give Must Runs to affiliates in terms of entire half hours and hours of morning and nightly news. Sinclair doesn't have a daily national news product and provides
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