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On the Media

TV News Anchors Speaking From the Heart — Uh, TelePrompter

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Did you see that video of Sinclair news anchors reading from a script? It's been watched over 7.5 million times and it's put the conservative media outlet back in the spotlight.

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0:00.0

Did you see that video that was making the rounds this weekend?

0:03.3

Hi, I'm Foxx-Sin Antonio's Jessica Headley.

0:05.8

And I'm Ryan Wolf.

0:06.6

Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities.

0:10.4

The El Paso...

0:11.1

It features a seemingly endless parade of Sinclair Broadcast Group TV news anchors,

0:16.9

those smiley folks so trusted by their local audiences,

0:20.5

speaking from the heart.

0:21.6

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

0:26.6

More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first.

0:32.6

The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming some of the policy.

0:40.3

We are true without checking facts first.

0:44.3

Okay, not from the heart necessarily, but from the teleprompter, all with the same script.

0:50.3

And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

0:53.3

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

0:56.4

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

1:01.1

The video was put together by Timothy Burke at Deadspin, the sports website, and to date it's

1:06.8

been viewed more than seven and a half million times. And it's put the spotlight back on Sinclair's right-wing political activism.

1:15.6

Here mouthed by local journalists, other times by the in-house reactionaries at headquarters,

1:20.8

and sometimes must-run long-form content.

1:25.2

In 2004, for instance, the company produced a hit piece on then-presidential

1:29.6

John Kerry focusing on his Vietnam-era anti-war activism. As I heard John Kerry speak,

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