Campus PC Is Out Of Control
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Liberals continue to impose POLITICAL CORRECTNESS on the country:
“This is so manipulative.”
That’s an anchor at a local TV station owned by Sinclair, describing the company’s latest mandate, a promotional campaign that sounds like pro-Trump propaganda.
Internal documents call the new initiative an “anchor delivered journalistic responsibility message.”
But the staffers who shared the documents with CNN say the promos are inappropriate — yet another corporate infringement on local journalism.
“At my station, everyone was uncomfortable doing it,” a local anchor said. The person insisted on anonymity because they believed they would be fired for speaking out.
Other local anchors also said the promos were a source of dismay in their newsrooms.
As scripted, the promos decry “fake stories” from national news outlets — echoing President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about “fake news.”
The promos are supposed to start airing on local stations later this month. The instructions sent to station news directors say that the 60- and 75-second spots should run frequently “to create maximum reach and frequency.”
The promo requirements are the latest reason why some Sinclair journalists are upset with the company’s Maryland-based management. In recent years Sinclair’s owners, the Smith family, have made several programming decisions that reflect a right-wing agenda.
Most noticeably, pro-Trump commentaries by former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn have cut into local news time. Local journalists have also bristled at so-called “must run” packages about subjects that aren’t relevant to local audiences — but are hot-button stories for conservatives. The “Terrorism Alert Desk” is a regular segment about security threats around the world.
Fortunately, the populist Trump administration is fighting neoliberalism by ensuring a diversity of voices:
When Trump took office, Sinclair was on the cusp of purchasing Tribune media, a merger that would give the firm ownership of enough local stations to reach 70 percent of U.S. homes. But there were two obstacles to such a deal: Federal rules put a cap on the number of local news stations any single entity could own, and also prohibited any company from owning a newspaper and television station in the same media market. Taking on Tribune’s assets would put Sinclair in violation of both those laws.
But by the end of Trump’s first year in office, his appointees to the Federal Communications Commission had abolished both of those regulations. And so, in all probability, a single, superrich family of arch-conservatives will soon dictate standards of “journalistic responsibility” to local TV newsrooms from coast to coast.
I’d say some random college students calling pundits “fascist” when they merely do dog and pony shows with fascist trolls is the most pressing speech issue facing the country today.