Daily Caller:
Sen. Durbin Questions Sinclair’s Editorial Decisions
Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin demanded in a Wednesday letter that Sinclair Broadcasting justify its editorial decisions.
Sinclair came under fire after a montage video showed local anchors all reading the same editorial script warning viewers about “biased” and “false news.” Media members warned that Sinclair was engaging in pro-Trump “propaganda” and questioned the network’s credibility.
Durbin sent a letter to Sinclair’s executive asking them to explain why anchors were delivering “scripted promotional message[s]” on public broadcast stations. MORE
But wait! There’s more:
Sinclair Producer Who Resigned To Protest ‘Obvious Bias’ Turns Out To Be A Left-Wing Activist.
A producer for a Sinclair-owned TV station, who resigned in protest of the company’s “obvious bias,” isn’t quite the unbiased journalist CNN portrayed him to be.
KHGI TV producer Justin Simmons resigned following a Sinclair promotion that warned against “fake news” and national media outlets practicing dishonest journalism.
The promo, which was widely condemned among liberal journalists, was “almost forcing local news anchors to lie to their viewers,” Simmons told CNN reporter Brian Stelter.
CNN’s coverage portrayed Simmons’ resignation as part of a broader clash between apolitical local journalists and conservative-leaning Sinclair executives. What CNN’s coverage didn’t note is Simmons is a proud left-wing activist.
Simmons tweeted in April 2016 about taking part in a protest against Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, which left-wing political group Democracy Spring organized. “When we took over @SpeakerRyan ‘s podium protesting to #GetMoneyOut at a @DemSpring protest,” wrote Simmons, linking to video from the protest.
Simmons also organized a Black Lives Matter protest in May 2016 and took media interviews in his role as a liberal activist.
“Nebraska isn’t going to stand for the systemic racism that we have in our country and in our police force,” Simmons told KSNB Local4. “Most importantly, we want to open people’s minds and show them that the Black Lives Matter Movement is mostly peaceful.” read more
Hey, at least Sinclair wasn’t using taxpayer money like far-left propaganda-spewing PBS!
Democrat media strategy using DNC talking points.
First rule of biased scripted news reporting is: Don’t talk about biased scripted news reporting.
Second rule: See the first rule.
Black Lives Matter Movement is “mostly peaceful”
That’s how the left organizes their protests. Green, yellow, red. Green are the general useful idiots that make up most of the mob. Yellow are the disrupters that agitate. Red are the truly violent thugs. This was explained in detail by Lee Stranahan back in 2012.
So yeah. Mostly non violent.
BFH has the Stranahan video. It’s informative.
Dicky has his Turban in a twist.
Maybe Simmons should just copy/paste whatever response Mark Zuckerberg sends Senator Durban, regarding Facebook’s “scripted promotional message”. I mean, the Senator did send that latter? Didn’t he?
Forgive my ignorance, but is Sinclair media connected to Larry Sinclair?
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1A for me, not for you.
There have been a plethora of “Breaking News” montages made up of the MSM where all the talking heads are “reporting” the same word for word stories.
Those, I assume, were OK cause it was them doing the collaborating.
A multitude of “organizations” doing the same thing is OK, one organization is suddenly wrong for doing the same thing within it’s own boundaries.
Do these people have any self-awareness?