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By SYDNEY EMBERMAY 12, 2017
They are called must-runs, and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group short video segments that are centrally produced by the company. Station managers around the country are directed to work them into the broadcast over a period of 24 or 48 hours.
Since November 2015, Sinclair has ordered its stations to run a daily segment from a Terrorism Alert Desk with updates on terrorism-related news around the world. During the election campaign last year, it sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery. More recently, Sinclair asked stations to run a short segment in which Scott Livingston, the companys vice president for news, accused the national news media of publishing fake news stories.
As Sinclair prepares to expand its stable of local TV stations with a proposed acquisition of Tribune Media which would add 42 stations to Sinclairs 173 advocacy groups have shown concern about the size and reach the combined company would have. Its stations would reach more than 70 percent of the nations households, including many of the largest markets.
Critics of the deal also cite Sinclairs willingness to use its stations to advance a mostly right-leaning agenda. That practice has stirred wariness among some of its journalists concerned about intrusive direction from headquarters.
That is what has happened in Seattle, a progressive city where Sinclair owns the KOMO broadcast station. In interviews over the past several days, eight current and former KOMO employees described a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclairs programming directives, especially the must-runs, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality. They also cited features like a daily poll, which they believe sometimes asks leading questions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/media/sinclair-broadcast-komo-conservative-media.html
still_one
(92,126 posts)Kerry
They are not good people
Brother Buzz
(36,415 posts)First class asshole. I'm surprised he's not ensconced in 45's administration.
Norbert
(6,039 posts)They own two stations in Cincinnati and two in Dayton. This Hyman asshat is a piece of work. I quit watching one of their stations years ago because Hyman kept shilling his hard right shit through editorials.
Sinclair has every potential to be worse than FAUX simply because they are on free TV.
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)There is Choice, there is Mute and there is just turn the damned station off.
Norbert
(6,039 posts)or the rest of the good people on here. It's the people that depend on others to do the thinking for them *cough* *cough* Trump *cough* *cough* Voters *cough*.
GoCubsGo
(32,079 posts)The local (Augusta, GA) NBC and CBS affiliates run the same local news broadcast. I won't watch them. I loved the local NBC crew before these assholes bought them out. Some of them landed at the local ABC affiliate, so that's what I watch now, although my favorite weatherman is now with the local Fox affiliate. Those two stations tend not to editorialize too much.
The local media here, for the most part, was already one big wingnut cesspool, so the only real difference is that there's one fewer local newscast now.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)K&R
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Sinclair would be the third leg of the stool of Fox-RW radio-Sinclair propaganda.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Not gonna listen to shitgibbon propaganda.
This is why the local television news and newspapers of America are failing.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Might say more about my watching habits, but I'm troubled that it's not even a story here. I saw it for the first time today in one of the smaller publications.
pansypoo53219
(20,969 posts)we have our own pravda.