What do you think of this? I’m still mulling it over.
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I’d offer to lend a hand, but I’d no more help you craft a well-polished sentence than I would instruct Tena on a point of jurisprudence or ‘help’ irasdad be funnier. Simply isn’t on old chap.
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Actually you’d be surprised how hopeless communicator types can be at self-promotion. It’s a kind of weird blind spot they can have. By “they” I mean myself. Also we have a new pedagogically minded poster in town. I’ll let you find out for yourself who it might be. : )
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So to fight “fake news” on social media Sinclair has their on air talent read the same script in whatever market they broadcast from, never mind that some of Sinclair stations are NBC, ABC, FOX affiliates. Now when POTUS mocks NBC is Joe Watcher going to understand the the Sinclair NBC station is not the NBC that the President is mocking?
As for George and Chris they worked in government years ago whereas Boris was working on a campaign 18 months ago.
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I battle that blind spot too.
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It’s a cruel irony.
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At least I know I’m not alone. Can we form a therapy group? 
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I really don’t know. What kind of viewership does this station have? To which major network is it an affiliate? It’s really hard to measure the impact without knowing those things.
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TPM has a subscription to Getty. Watermark appears for licensed users.
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Well damn if I’d want a watermark on images I was paying for.
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Danville - Lex area and it’s a Fox affiliate.
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Sinclair doesn’t support the news divisions at local stations. Lots of them don’t even have local reporters. They pay other locals to run their reports or run pre-packaged video news releases.
The soul reason for operation is to have a platform for Republicans candidates to spread RNC copy points. Our local has a 30 minute nightly conservative talk show instead of a news program. It’s not as sophisticated as Faux News but it keeps someone else from buying the station and mounting programing that is a reliable news source.
I wouldn’t give the devil money either. Don’t subsidize fascist organizations.
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Here’s a thought, Sinclair: Instead of explaining and explaining what you’re trying to do here, let your reporting speak for itself.
You are treating the viewing audience like we are all 3 year old humans or a troop of chimpanzees.
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This might actually be a pretty smart move. She’s getting a lot of chatter about it on social media and it’s been mentioned by a couple of talking heads as a shrewd political move. We’ll see.
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Last night, I believe it was Joy Reed covering for Rachel Maddow had a chart showing that Local Network TV news is the majority source of TV News but not by a whole lot. I think it was something like 37 pct and Cable was 27 pct and whatever the other third choice was (online? I dont remember, sorry) was also high 20s pct.
Here the Sinclair channel is CBS. It’s pretty much the only commercial station that our TV is ever used for, because we often watch Colbert. If I’m going to watch local news it’s another channel because they have better weather and 99% of the time that going to be online anyway. I suppose I can wait until the next day for online and watch the Late Show, well, late.
Do stations have to provide equal commercial time to opposing candidates or is it first-come, first-served? If all this does is allow more advertising for the GOP I’m not sure it’s going to help all that much. Candidates (though not super-PACs) have to be given the lowest rates offered by the station to anyone, and can’t be required to buy time on programs that run at, say 3am in order to get prime time slots. So political ads are more likely to be losers for the stations than big money makers, right?
But. It’s the principal of the thing.
Still, if a campaign boycotts, how do you let those voters who would have gotten the TV ads know what is going on? And if you push it in other media, couldn’t that also backfire, if voters take it as a criticism of their Young Sheldon habit or whatever?
This is so messed up. And it’s why consolidation of media outlet ownership is on the whole a bad, bad thing.
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I’m not sure I agree that this is the best play. I would have considered buying that ad space to fight them on their own turf. That might give Sinclair an excuse to disrupt her campaign by pulling the ads at the last minute, but that would likely play even more into her favor from a publicity standpoint than what she’s doing now.
You put your money down and you book a run. Basically, the time is yours. There’s other arrangements, but it’s regulated, especially at the local level.
These local station still, however, have to serve the community, while they make money. The system that polices that exists, but has never been seriously exercised by lots of valid complaints of “bias from a political agenda”.
Some might call it slavery.