I thought Ron Magers made a great comment on Robert Feder's page yesterday about Sinclair forcing anchors to read their propoganda word-for-word.
Ron Magers: We’re skipping a step here. Before the anchors were ordered to read it, dozens of General Managers signed off on it. Did not one say, “This doesn’t work in my market for my station!”
Forget their political agenda and remember that Sinclair is making a mockery of serving a local community. For me, that’s evidence enough for the FCC to say no to this deal.
But we all know it won’t happen that way.
And can we guess that the orders to muzzle WGN employees came from up top where any number of executives stand to reap a financial windfall when the Sinclair deal closes?
It led to this response this morning on Robert Feder's page...
Bill K Walsh · Loyola University Chicago
Why did Ron and the elites, not notice the key last sentence was missing from the Soros like permutation of the Sinclair video.
.......At [station] 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.
iit allows them to be condescending and ignore the actual total perspective of the statement. It applies as much to the Wolf Blitzers and the Shep Smith’s.
Which Ron Magers again answered quite well...
Ron Magers · Toppenish High School
Ron and The Elites was the name of my quartet in the 60's. How did you know?
What I did notice is that the category of "Fake News" as presently used for political purposes is itself fake. "Fake News", in our era, started as a false story circulated mostly on the internet for the purposes of influencing opinions. The Russians, our own political parties and fringies of every variety got quite good at it. Certain politicians have now taken up the term to denigrate any story or outlet that doesn't agree with their political position. Mr. Trump has, on countless occasions, used the term to describe stories that were true and accurate and, somehow, his base agrees with him. It is sad to see.
Mainstream journalists may sometimes make a mistake but they don't practice "Fake News". That dark art is a specialty of those who have you, Bill, in their bulls eye.
