Under new Sinclair ownership, D.C.'s WJLA-TV moves to the right

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington Post

There’s a new owner and a new approach to the news at WJLA-TV, Washington’s ABC affiliate. Under the direction of its ambitious corporate parent, the station’s news operations have taken a subtle but noticeable turn to the right.

... In addition to adding commentaries from Mark Hyman, an executive at Sinclair, WJLA has begun a partnership with the editorially conservative Washington Times to feature the newspaper’s “Golden Hammer” award on the air each week. The award recognizes “the most egregious examples of government waste, fraud and abuse,” as determined by the Times.

... The station has also begun to carry pieces produced by Sinclair’s Washington bureau about national issues and federal programs. These stories have generally been critical of the Obama administration and tend to offer perspectives primarily from conservative think tanks.

... “You can’t run a TV station in Washington by telling government workers that they’re a bunch of criminals and crooks,” said one of the station’s journalists, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he said he risked being fired if identified. “You can’t be the anti-government channel in Washington. They’re going to lose the trust they built up with people over years and years. We’ve told people, ‘We’re just like you,’ not, ‘We’re looking out for the tea party.’?”

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[Eleanors38]

1. The RW owns radio. The RW will own T.V. nt

[underpants]

2. They already do

[Eleanors38]

5. Funny, some of my apolitical friends now feel the chill breath...

of the corporate state, so my murmurings on the subject are no longer to myself.

[MADem]

3. That station was no "liberal bastion" before, either. That station

was, IIRC, owned by Joe Albritton, under the Albritton communications umbrella, and it was Daddy Albritton who kicked Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" off that very affiliate, for him daring to say the hijackers may not have been nice guys, but they sure weren't cowards.

FWIW, those Albritton clowns own that POLITICO website. If you ever wonder why their "fair and balanced" does not feel very fair, or balanced, over there, this is why.

I guess it's time to pretty much boycott ABC news. We know them by the company they keep--if their feeder stations suck, THEY suck. And Sinclair does suck mightily.

[underpants]

6. Correct - Politico is just a conduit for the Drudge report

Drudge posts some whacked hair brained RW creation - Politico posts it - MSM picks it up "as reported in Politico

Morning Joke has the Politico Daily Brief from Mike Allen (formerly of the raging Richmond Times-Dispatch) who provides viewers with the out-the-door water cooler talking points.

[MADem]

8. It's damn near time to blank ABC from the dial--they're turning into the "network Fox!"

That VIEW show has gone from unwatchable to REALLY unwatchable.

Were it not for Tommy Chong, DWTS would be a bust, too!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Mark Hyman??!! Oh no that dickhead. I remember him from my days in Columbus where he

would do "The Point" commentary . Which was nothing more than right wing drivel badly read from the prompter.

[Eleanors38]

7. How & when will the RW gain control of the Internet and social media?

Clearly, they are wrapping up the old MSM. So what are the strategies it Will use to eliminate/fashion political discourse on the Internet and social media? Any ideas?