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To: zzpat who wrote (1063977)	4/6/2018 6:43:30 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578303

it was just a psa for the company an ad, unlike the the lib media who all use the same byline for news, Like Cheney and "gravitas" and like this they have been doing it for decades and you were too stupid to see it or this one

To: zzpat who wrote (1063977)	4/6/2018 8:39:30 AM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578303

Did you see what Sinclair did? Did you see hundreds of mindless reporters all talk about "GRAVITAS" on the same day? You don't wear HYPOCRISY very well.

To: zzpat who wrote (1063977)	4/6/2018 8:58:54 AM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578303

Did you see what Sinclair did? You’ve Been Hoodwinked. (Perhaps.) Sharylattkisson.com, by Sharyl Attkisson If you watched the mash-up of Sinclair station anchors reading their national promo and were convinced it was something evil and nefarious, you’ve been hoodwinked. A few of you asked for my view on this continuing propaganda campaign put together by certain political interests and Sinclair’s competitors, as Sinclair seeks to close on a deal to buy Tribune companies. Watch the Deadspin mashup of Sinclair station promos: From what I can tell, this issue breaks down along ideological lines, and minds are not likely to be swayed. My friends on the far left are convinced that Sinclair anchors reading a national promo is Hitler-esque Orwellian brainwashing. My friends on the far right are happy and hopeful that Sinclair might, indeed, be pushing conservative views. Those in the middle don’t care or seem to think it’s much ado about nothing. There’s legitimate debate to be heard on many topics surrounding media fairness and consolidation. It’s obviously perfectly fine for you to disagree, but I find nothing to argue with in the nonpartisan, national Sinclair promos at issue. (The text is printed at the end of this article. You can decide for yourself.) In fact, I’ve heard many conservatives and liberals alike make these same points: That we have a problem with one-sided, false and biased news; that some reporters are pushing agendas; and that untrue stories are being published without proper fact checks. These assertions are pretty indisputable, wherever you sit. Read a local Sinclair anchor’s commentary on the issue The promos go on to say that Sinclair stations are committed to factual reporting neither “left nor right.” The anchors were even instructed not to wear blue or red, lest the colors be incorrectly interpreted as politically-charged in today’s environment. Somehow, this was portrayed by leftists as “Turning news anchors into soldiers for Trump’s war on the media.” They’re saying that the idea of news that’s fair, accurate and neither left nor right –is a right-wing idea. It’s all the more ironic considering that it was left wing interests who invented the anti-“Fake News” campaign, as I reported in my TEDx talk and The Smear. Yet, here, the same interests oppose the notion of a stated, corporatewide commitment to fair, accurate reporting. Watch Attkisson’s TEDx Talk “Is Fake News Real?” Those who disagree with this approach appear to be indicating they prefer to receive biased news. And that may be the real issue here: Many people do. As for the idea that it’s “brainwashing” or weird for a national company to have a promotional campaign that sets forth its mission statement, I think of the promos I did when working at local CBS stations in concert with the annual CBS promo campaigns. The network provided us wording and themes so that we could coordinate our local promotional campaigns with the national effort. One campaign, for example, was “ Experience You Can Trust”. Dan Rather, 1975, promoting CBS on the WTVT-TV local news in Tampa, Florida. When I worked at WTVT-TV in Tampa –then a CBS affiliate– the network flew national anchor Dan Rather down to Florida and arranged for me to interview him on my local noon program. The tour was to promote Dan and the national CBS Evening News. The particular promotional campaign was built to emphasize Dan’s field chops compared to his competitors, so he spoke of that in his appearance with me and at other local stations on his tour. Since at least the 1980s, national anchors for the networks have routinely appeared and delivered scripted wording alongside local anchors in promos to run on local stations, such as the examples below for NBC and Telemundo. (As a local station group, Sinclair doesn’t have a daily national newscast with an anchor to co-promote the news. Thus, the local Sinclair anchors did the promotions without a national nightly news anchor sitting beside them.)