Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly requiring local news anchors at TV stations it owns to recite pre-written promotional spots disavowing the national media\u2019s \u201cfake stories\u201d and \u201cpersonal bias\u201d \u2015 some of President Donald Trump\u2019s favorite punchlines. <\/p>\n
Sinclair, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the U.S., with 193 outlets in 89 markets, sent scripts of the promos to news directors, instructing that they be produced \u201cexactly as they are written,\u201d according to CNN.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m [we are] concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country,\u201d the spot begins. \u201cThe sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, national media outlets are publishing these same fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control \u2018exactly what people think\u2019 … This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
It concludes that reporting facts \u2015 which are neither \u201cleft nor right\u201d \u2015 is their duty as journalists. All Sinclair stations had to run an almost identical segment last year as well, The New York Times reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cI felt like a POW recording a message,\u201d one anchor at a Sinclair-owned station told CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly requiring local news anchors at TV stations it owns to recite pre-written promotional spots disavowing the national media\u2019s \u201cfake stories\u201d and \u201cpersonal bias\u201d \u2015 some of President Donald Trump\u2019s favorite punchlines. Sinclair, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the U.S., with 193 outlets in 89 markets, … Continue reading “Sinclair Forces Local News Anchors To Recite Trumpian-Sounding Promos: Report”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/layout-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}