Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
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#2Next time they'll give them all slightly different scripts, so they'll know who to fire when it leaks.
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#3I'm not clear why this is a problem. A corporation asked its broadcasters to make a statement on fake news. This statement sounds similar to others made by other corporate owned networks. Viewers are invited to comment on the website.
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#4I'm not clear why this is a problem. A corporation asked its broadcasters to make a statement on fake news. This statement sounds similar to others made by other corporate owned networks. Viewers are invited to comment on the website.
The problem is the corporation. Sinclair has it's own political agenda. Forcing anchors across the US to recite something is bad enough, but when that something is of questionable truth, and orchestrated to minimuze Sinclair's own propensity to push its right-ist agenda, it's downright scary.
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#5Isn't this pretty much the case for all corporate media? The narrative is set from the top down, and if anyone strays too far outside the Overton Window, they're punished. Example: Phil Donahue getting fired from MSNBC for speaking against the war in Iraq.
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#6Isn't that the entire model since long of the owners of multiple local news channels? It's a running joke on reddit since so many years.
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#7It is important to reinforce the wholesomeness, and trustworthiness, of your brand or product when that product faces the significant risk of potential legislative regulation in light of growing aversion to its decades-long embrace of lies, manipulation, and 'fake news' in the pursuit of ratings and shareholder value.
Sinclair has taken up the mantle of PR Firm to engage in some preemptive damage control. 15 years ago all you had to say was "Fair and Balanced."
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#8FYI, the article seems to be linking to a reupload of the original video for some reason.
This is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#9Isn't that the entire model since long of the owners of multiple local news channels? It's a running joke on reddit since so many years.
The problem is that they’re the single largest television broadcaster.
Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, the company is the largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations, and largest by total coverage; owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country (233 after all currently proposed sales are approved) in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households), many of which are located in the South and Midwest.
Re: Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
#10Isn't this pretty much the case for all corporate media? The narrative is set from the top down, and if anyone strays too far outside the Overton Window, they're punished. Example: Phil Donahue getting fired from MSNBC for speaking against the war in Iraq. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
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