Nice.
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“Do you understand that as a practical matter every word that comes out of the mouths of network news people is scripted and approved by someone?”
Yes, they’re called editors and usually they’re there to make sure the article or segment is actually true. They serve a different purpose at Sinclair.
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OT but we can all use a laugh when we can get one these days:
Andy Borowitz at New Yorker hits another one out of the park:
Scott Walker Dismayed That Wisconsin Apparently Smarter Despite Cuts in Education
Excerpt: Walker said that his [education] cuts were based on a theory known as “trickle-up stupidity,” in which students in Wisconsin’s schools would become less informed and their ignorance would eventually infect their voting-age parents.
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This is the dictionary definition of “when you’re explaining, you’re losing”.
You’d think they’d be better at propaganda!
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“They do it too” That’s it ? I’ve seen better comebacks from Trumpflakes in the AOL News comments page.
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“Do you understand that as a practical matter every word that comes out of the mouths of network news people is scripted and approved by someone?” Smith asked a Times reporter by email.
How about this: Do you fucking understand when the local news team at KPIX-TV5 in San Francisco does a segment on a terrorist bombing in Syria they're not required by goddamn CBS to use the same exact script as the local news team at WBBM-TV2 in Chicago? Do you get that!!?? Do you?! Jesus, what a fucking idiot.
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It’s like campaign ads having to include a statement of who made and paid for them. This is no different than the old radio payola scam, where DJs were paid to play records that the audience were told they picked themselves.
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Updated -
Sinclair Exec: ‘Every Word’ Of TV News Is ‘Scripted And Approved By Someone In The Fake News Department` .
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Except, for the Trumpistas, this is interpreted as as “bravely pushing back againt the unfair, mean-spirited attacks by vicious twitter gangs of hardened, scripted liberal attack snowflakes.”
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I remember growing up listening to rock on the local radio stations. We had one in town, everyone’s favorite, that had a rule no song was to be played twice in a day, ever. Despite all the wars and assasinations and pollution and racism and riots and burning cities and forced births and back alley abortions and segregation and gasoline shortages and airline hijackings the 60s and 70s were OK.
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Yes, absolutely: Truth in labeling.
Yes, I understand that the “accurate representation of the facts” bit is somehow involved.
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“Do you understand that as a practical matter every word that comes out
of the mouths of network news people is scripted and approved by
someone?”
Do YOU understand that that ‘someone’ is called an ‘editor’ with lots and lots of training or experience with the news and the English language, not some flunky wringing his hands cause Whiny might get upset?
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The bobble-head crowd will use this excuse and never think about how that propaganda / control of the media affects the nation - re: Germany, current Turkey, current Russia, etc etc.
Oh, those scripts that the read are the ones that they wrote, based on their reporting. And, to the extent there are additional promotional spots in which the reporters appear, they do so to promote their stations and their work. This slug is trying to push a message that every other news source --but his is unreliable and is engaged in presenting “fake news.” No one else does that, or ever has done that and this slug knows full well that his agenda is to undermine truth and, therefore, the cornerstone of democracy. it’s tragic that he has any broadcast licenses.
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Ya a real Parody
Or not
Speaking of which …
“The Rock” was yammering about a Presidential run.
Been studyin’ up on all the Presidentin’ stuff
Yes we are there Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
“standard practice in the industry.”
Rings a little hollow when you monopolize the industry
“Not that you would print it, but do you understand that every local TV station is required to ‘must run’ from its network their content, and they don’t own me,” he wrote in an email to the Times on Tuesday. “That would be all their news programming and other shows such as late-night talk, which is just late-night political so-called comedy.”
Yeah, but those network news shows and programming are clearly labeled - by those other national networks - as coming from the national network rather than being local programming. They have a national network news show and then a local news show. You, Sinclair, do all you can to disguise your national Sinclair Network "must runs’ and other Republican propaganda programming as being mere, innocent, home-town local programming from local, home-town, go-to-your-same-church, more-trustworthy-than-themotherguys broadcasters.
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Every time I somehow get near a TV showing local news I could scratch my eyes out. It’s all blah-blah-blah-blah-water skiing quirrel-hahaha-see you same time tomorrow. Just shoot me.
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But the local weather is always fun to watch. 5 minutes of what it was already today, which is about 75% accurate, followed by the forecast, which hits about 25% on the ‘you-can-count-on-it’ scale. Just walking outside and checking the sky is a much better way to make weather-related decisions - unless the water skiing squirrel gives you a hint.