Sinclair tells stations to air media-bashing promos - and the criticism goes viral

[spanone]

Sinclair Broadcast Group's corporate mandates are exacerbating tensions between the company's local stations and its management.

Journalists in local markets are chafing at the company's requirements, including a new promotional campaign that echoes President Donald Trump's anti-media rhetoric.

The promos, first reported by CNNMoney last month, went viral over the weekend after Deadspin edited dozens of them together to show how anchors across the country were told to read the same script.

"It sickens me the way this company is encroaching upon trusted news brands in rural markets," an investigative reporter at Sinclair told CNNMoney on condition of anonymity.

The reporter and other Sinclair employees in several different markets described tense conversations in their newsrooms and anger directed at the company's Hunt Valley, Maryland, headquarters.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/01/media/sinclair-anchor-promos/index.html

[pangaia]

1. Looks like Sinclair will be faux on steroids.

[spanone]

2. and they'll be shoveling this shit in many, many local newsrooms

[oberliner]

3. Who writes the copy at CNN?

I don't think it's the anchors.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Why be coy?

What are you implying?

[oberliner]

5. Sinclair is not unique in this

Pretty much all of the big media outlets are corporate controlled.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. True that, but do they operate their stations in the same manner?

I'll wait while you find a true comparison to Sinclair's antics. I breathlessly await your response!

Cheers!

[oberliner]

9. No idea

My instinct tells me that Time Warner has some control over the messaging of the stations it owns, but I am just speculating. That's why I went with a coy remark instead of a detailed analysis.

[Dustlawyer]

7. Sinclaire has further weaponized the news to spread propaganda.

Where are the checks and balances of our government on this? Speacial interests and our legalized bribery are bringing us down.

[lunasun]

8. Now it's politics before it was consumerism scripts . This was on Conan 5 years ago

Local news -It's not a new form of propaganda

[Cha]

10. K&R!

Thanks, spanone

[Maraya1969]

11. We should start contacting their advertisers. Hard to do since they are local

But not impossible