Sinclair WLYTK Its Propaganda Is Actually Fine

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sinclair Broadcasting Would Like You to Know Its Propaganda Is Actually Fine


Its perfectly fine and dandy for a corporation to force people to broadcast conspiracy theories as if they were connected to reality, according to the Sinclair Broadcasting Group.


Parrot script, to be read by trusted, vetted, educated, experience journalists and reporters-


"Hi, I'm(A) ____________, and I'm (B) _________________...

(B) Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Northwest communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that KOMO News produces.

(A) But we're concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

(B) More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories... stories that just aren't true, without checking facts first.

(A) Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control 'exactly what people think'...This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.

(B) At KOMO it's our responsibility to pursue and report the truth. We understand Truth is neither politically 'left nor right.' Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility, now more than ever.

(A) But we are human and sometimes our reporting might fall short. If you believe our coverage is unfair please reach out to us by going to KOMOnews.com and clicking on CONTENT CONCERNS. We value your comments. We will respond back to you.

(B) We work very hard to seek the truth and strive to be fair, balanced and factual... We consider it our honor, our privilege to responsibly deliver the news every day.

(A) Thank you for watching and we appreciate your feedback"


https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/KOMO-fake-news-Sinclair-promos-12792032.php

The reporters were coughing, sputtering, and choking, when they finished reciting the parroting of the Crackpot's script.

Sinclair broadcasting corporation thinks that everyone is freaking out for no reason.


Every employer forces their wage slaves to do stuff that is against their will ! Sinclair has a right to bully their work staff into advancing their political agenda!

Sinclair would like the people living their lives on the reality side of Alice in Wonderland's mirror, to STFU about Sinclair's method of forcing journalists, reporters, and television announcers to say stupid shit from the Extremists Right Wing Republicans.

Sinclair is selling propaganda as if it were the truth, and Orange tRump is eating it up with his hamburgers. Now Orange tRump has two flavors of info-tainment for his happy-food-time hours, and his break-of-dawn tweet festivals. FOX TV is not the only liar in town.

Orange tRump proclaimed his love for Sinclair, and splashed the piss of his disdain and contempt on CNN and NBC.

https://theslot.jezebel.com/sinclair-broadcasting-would-like-you-to-know-its-propag-1824266279


Some Sinclair staffers say they're embarrassed by the promos and concerned about their own credibility as journalists. A few local anchors and reporters are even reacting publicly, risking the ire of Sinclair.


"Everyone is really embarrassed after watching the Deadspin video," an employee at one of the stations said Monday.

April 2, 2018

Monday morning, apparently while watching TV coverage of the controversy,(Orange tRump) sided with Sinclair in a very public way. He tweeted that it's "so funny to watch Fake News Networks" criticize Sinclair "for being biased" and said "Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke."

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.

Mary Nam responds to Orange tRump remark


ary Nam
@Mary_Nam
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10h
Actually, this isn't funny at all.
None of it.
When media giants gobble up local news stations, there are repercussions. And since you brought it up first this morning, will your admin green light the Tribune buyout

Nam also shared a critical column from The Salt Lake Tribune. The paper's TV critic, Scott D. Pierce, wrote in the column that "Sinclair is using the trust built by its local station to advance its political agenda."



A producer at WGN, one of the Tribune stations Sinclair wants to acquire, tweeted on Monday, "There is NO WAY any of our on-air anchors and reporters will read their scripted messages on our show.

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Memo from Sinclair SVP Scott Livingston to Sinclair newsrooms on Monday:

(gsgs translation)

Hello poors! Our mega-wealthy media corporation wants to convince country bumkins and salt of the earth hamlet dwellers that Pizzagate is real, and that Dark Forces inhabit the government offices that oppose Orange tRump.

Your tiny TV station will help us to brainwash these trusting country folk, because we are telling you to do this. If you do not help us trick these village dwellers, you will lose your job! We do not care if you are betraying trust, and losing your honor.

Sinclair does not care about journalistic integrity, truth, or any of that useless goody-two shoes honesty. There are plenty of internet trolls to supply the garbage we plan to pollute the airwaves with.

Sinclair is here to divide communities, and to convince people to become Orange tRump supporters. We are here to excite and incite. We will entertain your neighbors with the freakish, the weird, and the unusual.


We have plenty of crap polls and worthless studies concocted by people with no ethics or consciences. Fuck facts! They will not get Sinclair a place in Orange tRump's heart.

Standards and best practices ? We don't need no stinking standards!

Fuck your community, we are going to rip your community a new arsehole. You, the journalists, the reporters, and the announcers will convince these simple souls to bend over, and welcome the arse-rape.

Or, else, you will never work in a tiny TV station in this country, again. We billionaires are selling tiny TV staitions to each other, as if they were trading cards.

Real estate is so boring! Developing a propaganda machine out of a news program is much more fun!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

That whole story is very worrisome.

It should be read by all the Wing Nuts who accuse "the Left" of freaking out.

It's irrefutable evidence of Big Brother and Orwellian Doublespeak, just like all the "snowflakes" cried when Trump got elected.

The more fascist this country becomes, the more we will just say "We told you so."

 

[Captainnumnuts]

I really must look into this Sinclair thing.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sinclair has proved their loyalty to the Orange tRump. By proving their worth, in the real flesh world, and pleasing Orange tRump with the sounding of his catch phrase, they have now earned a share of the corruption.

Sinclair will reap wealth, because mutual back-scratching between Orange tRump and a corrupt business results in wishes granted. Sinclair gave campaign funds, and Orange tRump's lackey gave Sinclair an open gate (regulations, examinations, and prohibitions, *poof* gone! Now, that Orange tRump's favorite catchphrase has been broadcast in small communities around America, the handshake will take place. More tiny TV stations will be gobbled up. Undue and excessive influence is not a concern, in Orange tRump's world.

Orange tRump has punished corporations that refused to buy into his brand of corruption. Mergers do not go through, if Orange tRump does not get something for himself out of the deal.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/trump-tweet-sinclair-cnn/

Trump’s Federal Communications Commission has pushed through a series of deregulatory actions that have paved the way for Sinclair’s growth and domination of the local news business. The FCC is currently weighing a merger that would let Sinclair acquire most of rival Tribune Media’s stations. If approved, the merger would extend Sinclair’s reach into as many as three-quarters of US households. It’s hard to see Trump objecting to the deal if his pro-Sinclair tweet is any indication.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...e-folks-doing-living-but-isnt-news/479239002/


"To borrow the credibility of the anchor and the reporter is beyond the pale.”

Nick Clooney worked at one of the stations that Sinclair bought.

Nick Clooney said he would have quit, become a cab driver or something, rather than read a boss’s editorial as his own.

"If all they want is a puppet, a marionette, you can get them a lot cheaper,” said Clooney, father of actor George Clooney and brother to singer-actress Rosemary Clooney.

Nick Clooney is by no means alone in criticizing Sinclair’s fake news editorial. Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld tweeted he will boycott Channel 12, denouncing Sinclair as “creepy, cult-ish and way too propagandistic.”
Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld says he's boycotting local station Channel 12 WKRC

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...eld-says-hes-boycotting-local-stat/477736002/

Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld says he's boycotting local station Channel 12 WKRC

Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld says he'll no longer watch Channel 12 in the wake of a controversial video that shows Channel 12 anchors - and anchors across the country - reading an identical script from parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...eld-says-hes-boycotting-local-stat/477736002/


What is some fraud, and a false impression, to a TV station ? Banks have done worse.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Pushing the FOX TV info-tainment talking points on Sinclair owned TV stations

People know what to expect, when they tune into FOX TV info-tainment.If they want legitimate reporting, they know they will get reality based news and reporting. Sinclair is forcing legitimate news sources to interupt the news, in order to insert conspiracy theories from the likes of Steve Bannon.

This tactic smears and muddles a clear line of division.

Dan Rather-

It's be clear, news anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, a script meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism. It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. And it is on a slippery slope towards some of history's most destructive forces. These are the means by which despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.

To those who say this rhetoric is hyperbolic, I submit that attacking the press as honest brokers of information has been one of the constants of this Administration and all those who normalize it. But this is not normal. This is not how the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, that beloved First Amendment, is supposed to operate.

Referencing the video, Rather says he can understand the broadcasters’ rationalizations, their desperations, and the need to feed their families. But the truth must win out. It must or we have nothing.


https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-p...s-sinclair-broadcastings-orwellian-propaganda

With the help of Orange tRump, Sinclair, which, with the help of a friendly federal government, is about to swallow up another 40 television stations—increasing its reach and its lead over competitors like Hearst and Scripps.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490

Sinclair has been up to this monkey mischief for quite some time now, even before it commanded its local stations to carry the frothing nonsense of stubbly Trumper Boris Epshteyn.

Sinclair has done the propaganda trick before

http://archive.pressthink.org/2004/11/16/snclr_vision.html


Sinclair Broadcasting, at different times, on different nights, but close to the election—“like within ten days”—Sinclair was going to interrupt the prime-time programming offered by different networks in different cities where it owns affiliates, and put on the air Stolen Honor, an anti-Kerry documentary—agitprop, as it used to be called—featuring former POWs in Vietnam who, in essence, charge John Kerry with treason for his anti-war efforts. And they were doing all this because….?

http://archive.pressthink.org/2004/11/16/snclr_vision.html

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19660484/trump-sinclair-propaganda/

The United States' largest owner of television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, mandated that its outlets run a segment on the so-called deep state that was produced by a former reporter for the Russian propaganda outlet RT, according to a new report.

The "must-run" piece aired on March 21 and featured Sebastian Gorka, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, lamenting the existence of a deep state—a popular conspiracy theory in some circles that longtime career public servants in the government are working to subvert the U.S. government. Trump has repeatedly complained about such a mysterious rogue network.


Who was the go-between facilitator ?

Boris Epshteyn, a Trump campaign spokesman whose brief stint in the White House ended last month, has joined Sinclair Broadcast Group as chief political analyst.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/trump-spokesman-boris-epshteyn-sinclair-broadcast-group-1202032200/

Boris Epshteyn, Russia-born investment banker and attorney moderated a panel at an October 2013 conference in New York City called “Invest in Moscow!” The panel was mainly comprised of Moscow city government officials, like Sergey Cheremin, a city minister who heads Moscow’s foreign economic and international relations department.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-advisers-russia-ties_us_57acd474e4b007c36e4db94c


MEDIA GIANT SINCLAIR HIRED REPORTER FROM RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA OUTLET RT WHO PRODUCED ‘MUST-RUN’ ‘DEEP STATE’ SEGMENT


http://www.newsweek.com/sinclair-broadcast-group-must-run-deep-state-rt-russia-today-867029


Sinclair national correspondent Kristine Frazao produced the segment. Before joining Sinclair in 2013 she was an anchor/correspondent at RT, formerly Russia Today, for over three years, according to her LinkedIn page. RT is an international television network funded by the Russian government. The Columbia Journalism Review called it "the Kremlin's propaganda outlet

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/03/sinclair-hired-reporter-russian-propaganda

 

[Veroe]

Just found out I have local TV station owned by Sinclair here in my viewing area. Not the one I rely upon for local news coverage, but just the same....never gonna watch that news broadcast on that channel: never gonna trust them period.

Be forcefed propaganda ala Chef Sinclair Broadcast group....no thank you!!!

 

[mark_j]

This isn't anything new.

They're called "Press Packets". Everyone does it. Didn't you ever notice that from one network to another they all have about the same script?

Stop acting like this is some revelation. It's been done by everyone for years.

 

[KeithD]

Press packets are aids to be used as one wishes, they aren't directives to read the editorial exactly as written at every station Sinclair owns or be fired. You're just attempting to distract and deflect from disgusting un-American heavy-handed tactics. You're a disgusting tool.

 

[mark_j]

Press packets are aids to be used as one wishes, they aren't directives to read the editorial exactly as written at every station Sinclair owns or be fired. You're just attempting to distract and deflect from disgusting un-American heavy-handed tactics. You're a disgusting tool.

And you're a fucking idiot. See I can do that too...

 

[Blue]

And you're a fucking idiot. See I can do that too...

11/10 rebuttal you totally got them.

 

[Blue]

Sinclair has issued a gag order on all their owned stations to prevent more information about this event or any other instances where they turned their staff into ideological drones leaking out.

"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
Got that right

 

[phrodeau]

Press packets are aids to be used as one wishes, they aren't directives to read the editorial exactly as written at every station Sinclair owns or be fired. You're just attempting to distract and deflect from disgusting un-American heavy-handed tactics. You're a disgusting tool.

There's nothing un-American about coercing your staff to stick to a script or face unemployment. That type of free speech never existed on these shores.

 

[Hypoxia]

There's nothing un-American about coercing your staff to stick to a script or face unemployment. That type of free speech never existed on these shores.

Quite right. Sinclair can impose any requirements they wish on their non-enslaved employees. You don't want to do what the boss wants you to do? Work elsewhere. What, there's no work in your field? Time to change fields.

Sinclair could go even further if they contracted prison labor. Obey Sinclair rules or get stuck in The Hole; and you can never quit and compete. Hey, a great way to cut costs! Especially after pesky 'journalists' are imprisoned. They can have Geraldo Rivera for a dollar an hour.

 

[Blue]

There's nothing un-American about coercing your staff to stick to a script or face unemployment. That type of free speech never existed on these shores.

Quite right. Sinclair can impose any requirements they wish on their non-enslaved employees. You don't want to do what the boss wants you to do? Work elsewhere. What, there's no work in your field? Time to change fields.

Sinclair could go even further if they contracted prison labor. Obey Sinclair rules or get stuck in The Hole; and you can never quit and compete. Hey, a great way to cut costs! Especially after pesky 'journalists' are imprisoned. They can have Geraldo Rivera for a dollar an hour.

The US, despite its flaws and general barbarity, is the #1 country in the world when it comes to guaranteeing ones freedom to express themselves. I'd argue that it absolutely is un-American. It may not be illegal to do so but I can't see how it's not blatantly against the principle of freedom of expression to coerce a person to outwardly hold positions they may not internally believe, under threat of losing their job?

Whatever the answer is, I should note that I'm unfortunately helping to drive the conversation away from the most important issue at hand here: That special interest groups have the ability to enforce idealogical homogeneity over your access to information. They say state media like RT is a propaganda outlet (which at times is entirely true) but I don't see how this is any different. It's privately owned media promoting and enforcing a one-dimensional view of a state narrative.
1984 come to liiiifffeee.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

mark_j and coachb are the worst of the worst. #assholes

And you're a fucking idiot. See I can do that too...

 

[mark_j]

mark_j and coachb are the worst of the worst. #assholes

Ahh yes, the old double standard.

It's ok when it promotes your agenda, but it's not ok when it promotes one that you don't agree with.

Strong with hypocrisy is this.

 

[KeithD]

No, it's more your demonstration of a total lack of humanity--which you probably don't dare show in real life.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

What? I didn't even read your blather.

I just know you're an asshole.

Ahh yes, the old double standard.

It's ok when it promotes your agenda, but it's not ok when it promotes one that you don't agree with.

Strong with hypocrisy is this.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

At some of Sinclair's stations, some local anchors resisted recording the promos, while others went along with the initiative. The backlash has been fierce on social media ever since Deadspin published a compilation of the promos last weekend.

"Why don't they quit?" has been a theme in the social media reaction to the promos -- meaning, why don't journalists quit if they are troubled by the company's actions?

But some employees, especially on-air anchors and reporters, are under contract. While contracts are common in the TV news industry, Sinclair's contracts have been described as particularly onerous, with severe penalties attached.

Simmons told CNNMoney he was free to quit because he wasn't under contract.

He originally proposed an April 20 resignation date to his boss, but when he later told his boss that he was speaking with a reporter from CNNMoney, he was put on paid leave.


http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/04/media/sinclair-producer-resigns-protest/index.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Why Many Sinclair Employees Just Don't Quit


An Orlando resident and former Sinclair employee is being sued by the company for quitting


April 4, 2018

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...ida-is-being-sued-by-the-company-for-quitting


“So after a year [at WPEC] I’d had enough and asked to be released from my contract, which is not uncommon in TV news markets,” Beaton, who previously worked at Sinclair station WPEC News 12 in West Palm Beach, tells Orlando Weekly.

Beaton says that the company told him he had to pay around $25,000 to get out of the contract, even though he was only making roughly $44,000 a year.

“So that was clearly something I couldn’t do,” he says.

In 2015, after leaving the TV news station, Beaton moved back to Orlando and opened up his own public relations firm. But just before the statute of limitations had run out, on Oct. 13, the company sued Beaton in Orange County courts, requesting $5,700 in damages and other related costs, according to a copy of the complaint filed in state court.

Beaton, who was a reporter, also says the company guided its newsrooms' work toward a conservative point of view while he was working with WPEC. He compares the slant to ultra-conservative publications like the Blaze and the Daily Wire.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...ida-is-being-sued-by-the-company-for-quitting

gsgs comment--

Sinclair haS been subverting TV stations, for a long time.


https://www.motherjones.com/politic...castings-plot-to-take-over-your-local-news-1/


Chicago TV station may be the next victim of Sinclair


Journalists at “Chicago’s Very Own” WGN-TV are safe for now from having to read any “fake” news warnings like the ones recently broadcast at stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group — but the well-known Chicago TV station remains on track to fall under Sinclair’s control.

WGN is one of Tribune Media’s 42 local TV stations that Sinclair is looking to acquire in a $3.9 billion deal. The deal was announced in May 2017 but still needs approval from the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump-sinclair-broadcasting-deadspin-video-fake-news/

For now, Sinclair’s proposed takeover of WGN and the other Tribune Media stations is on hold. The FCC paused a 180-day “shot clock” on the Sinclair-Tribune transaction in January as the U.S. Department of Justice reviews the merger.

Neil Grace, senior communications advisor for the FCC, said the commission will restart the clock once applicants finish negotiations with the Justice Department and provide updated applications to the FCC.


Orange tRump has friends, on the other side of Alice in Wonderland's mirror. Where print media is not to be believed or trusted.

Sinclair's David Smith, the executive chairman, may not be as identifiable as Rupert Murdoch or Jeff Bezos, but he’s as powerful; his influence saturates American homes through the 193 television stations he owns or controls, peppered throughout 39 states, spanning from New York to California (though concentrated in the South and Midwest).

Founded as the Chesapeake Television Corporation in 1971 by his father, Julian Sinclair Smith, his company began its expansion and changed its name to Sinclair Broadcasting Company in 1985, the year before the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched. David Smith and his brothers assumed control of the business; previously, David had been a partner at Ciné Processors, a bootleg porn manufacturer owned by the elder Smith’s company, the Commercial Radio Institute, according to a 2005 story in Rolling Stone.

Is any information that doesn’t come directly from Sinclair or from the mouth of David Smith himself suspect? Perhaps that’s the idea.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...an-entire-print-media-has-no-credibility.html

 

[Veroe]

This isn't anything new.

They're called "Press Packets". Everyone does it. Didn't you ever notice that from one network to another they all have about the same script?

Stop acting like this is some revelation. It's been done by everyone for years.

Press packets are optional, not issued out as "Must-run" segments.

Even if it wasn't new, and your either misinformed or being disingenuous in saying that it is, it doesn't stop it from being disgusting.

I've heard there's one station in Madison Wisconsin, that refused to do the "Dangerous to our democracy" segment. Will be interested in seeing what consequences befall those who stood up for some journalistic integrity.

Also heard that in their contracts there are non-compete clauses to keep employees from being able to find employment with competitors after leaving Sinclair. As well as a clause that penalizes the employee with a fee of up to 40% of their salary for breaking that contract.

Both of those seem focused on telling these people you shut up and flush any claims of journalistic integrity down the toilet and do these "Must-run" propaganda segments as if they were actually credible news segments or watch the self-destruction of your career for that integrity.

That's what I have issue with here, and that is why I will NEVER watch one of these propaganda broadcasts.

 

[mark_j]

Press packets are optional, not issued out as "Must-run" segments.

Yep, all the media companies issue those too.. Sinclair isn't the only one.

Even if it wasn't new, and your either misinformed or being disingenuous in saying that it is, it doesn't stop it from being disgusting.

No. I wasn't misinformed. I read the articles from MSN and NYT about it. Seems to me that none of them are refuting the fact that their parent media companies pull the same thing. It more runs along the lines of Sinclair has control of all these local markets and *GASP* they are somewhat conservative.

The point is, disgusting or not, all networks/media/news corp have an editorial bias. We also know that a great deal of them have a liberal lean in their presentation of that editorial policy. MSN, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo have all leaned that way for years and have been practicing the same sort of skulduggery that they are accusing Sinclair of doing.

For them to get all bent about Sinclair smacks of grand scale hypocrisy.

I've heard there's one station in Madison Wisconsin,
{snip}
Also heard that in their contracts there are non-compete clauses to keep
{snip}
Both of those seem focused on telling these people you shut up and flush any claims of journalistic integrity down the toilet and do these "Must-run" propaganda segments as if they were actually credible news segments or watch the self-destruction of your career for that integrity.

That's what I have issue with here, and that is why I will NEVER watch one of these propaganda broadcasts.

Then don't watch them. I don't care and I'd bet that no one else does either, despite what they say to your face.

Look, I'm not defending Sinclair nor am I excoriating the other networks and news corporations. They do what they do and in the end it really doesn't matter to me. With the exceptions of small snippets here and there I don't watch network TV nor get any of my news from them or the local channels.

As I've said before, hypocrisy and double standards at their finest.

 

[mark_j]

What? I didn't even read your blather.

I just know you're an asshole.

And you're a rancid cunt. There we're even...

 

[KeithD]

Yep, all the media companies issue those too.. Sinclair isn't the only one.

Other media companies do NOT force all of their stations to read the exact same editorial on the air, word for word. Who do you think you're fooling? You're both clueless and a Trump tool on this issue.

 

[Hypoxia]

Other media companies do NOT force all of their stations to read the exact same editorial on the air, word for word.

They could... if they wanted to shed every last shred of perceived integrity, as Sinclair has. But a big part of MSM marketing is their supposedly high levels of integrity, honest reporting, fact-checking, professionalism. MSM don't pull this shit because it's brand-damaging. MSM stars get fired for fucking up, for being fooled, sloppy, or shitty. Note who Sinclair does or doesn't fire and why.