Posted on 04/05/2018 6:34:29 AM PDT by Mechanicos
If this is the video I saw recently it’s hilarious, but not nefarious.
The stations all have the same ownership and are reading from a provided script. Ironically, in an attempt to illustrate “fake news”, the compiler of the video used a conservative outlet.
It’s the video equivalent of every newspaper in America running the exact same AP story on the same day, which happens repeatedly. Doesn’t mean the news is fake, and it doesn’t mean they’re all in it together. They just all subscribe to the AP newsfeed.
Now whether or not the AP is faking things, that’s an altogether different story.
Had they told one news reader to read the statement as a statement from the Sinclair Group instead of 'acting it out' with multiple news readers there would have been no problem because it would have been clear it was a MISSION STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE SINCLAIR GROUP.
A simple announcement from one news reader on camera saying, 'The Sinclair Group would like to take this moment to clarify our editorial policy' is how they should have done it.
I believe they thought they could make it look natural and spontaneous by issuing the statement as they did.
It had the opposite affect. It looked orchestrated and phoney.
It's good to see Sinclair stood by their statement but they might have conceded they did it poorly.
They should have had one person reading the prepared statement prefaced by, 'At this time, the Sinclair Group would like to issue a mission statement on our news policy'.
Swing and miss.
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