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
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
Well right but what are you saying is the difference to consumers? The local affiliates are required to run the network programming. To the viewer at home, they see it regardless of whether the national runs it or the national gives it to its stations/affiliates to run.
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson
There’s a big difference when trusted local anchors are forced to lend their credibility to biased reporting or commentary that doesn’t reflect local values. It’s an abuse of years of trust between anchors and audiences that developed prior to Sinclair’s acquisition.
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I worked at local CBS stations and people would commonly call the local number and ask to speak to Dan Rather. They thought he was literally right there.
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