“To have local newscasters all speaking from the same script to disparage journalism is sickening, appalling and disgusting,” he said in an email. Tim England, a journalism and mass communications professor at Texas State University, called the Sinclair script readings “a dark day in broadcast journalism.”
“While the message contains grains of truth,” Washington Post media and politics reporter Callum Borchers wrote in an analysis piece Monday, “it could leave the false impression that many reporters are fabricators - an idea Trump likes to promote because it grants voters permission to disbelieve whatever information they wish were untrue.” “And we understand truth is neither politically ‘left nor right.’ Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility, now more than ever,” Beamer added.Īt no point do the anchors state that they were reading from a corporate script and not expressing their own views. “At News 4 San Antonio, it’s our responsibility to report and pursue the truth,” Mathieu said. Toward the end of the promo, the anchors assured viewers that their station is different from other media and is much more reliable. Mathieu then emphasized that what’s “more alarming” is that “some media outlets publish these same fake stories. “The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media,” Beamer said in the promo. The script also takes a swipe at social media.
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How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media: /dMdSGellH3- Deadspin March 31, 2018 news insert toward the end of the broadcast Friday, the anchors decried “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country” before warning that this is “extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
In the version read by Beamer and Mathieu, which appeared in a 10 p.m. The video warns viewers of the promos, showing a great number of news anchors repeating virtually the same message in unison, and was subsequently shared in articles by the New York Times, CNN, USA Today and other media outlets. Headley’s voice, in fact, is the first one heard in a video gone viral on social media that was created by Timothy Burke of website Deadspin. It also has been voiced by KABB’s main anchor team, Jessica Headley and Ryan Wolf.
Mandated for all local stations owned by Sinclair, the country’s largest broadcaster and one increasingly being seen as having a conservative bias, the message has been recited by WOAI anchor Randy Beamer, one of San Antonio’s most prominent newscasters, and his 5 p.m. Carolyn Kaster /Associated Press Show More Show LessĪnchors on San Antonio stations WOAI and KABB, along with dozens of newscasters at other Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned TV stations across the country, are voicing what’s being seen as media-bashing promos that seem to support President Donald Trump’s views on the media - and the response has been mostly negative. KABB photo Show More Show Less 4 of4 President Donald Trump defended Sinclair’s news promos in a tweet on Monday.
anchor team Ryan Wolf and Jessica Headley have voiced an anti-media promo that's being recited by dozes of other newcasters at Sinclair-owned TV stations across the country. Courtesy WOAI Show More Show Less 3 of4 KABB's 9 p.m. Courtesy Delaine Mathieu Show More Show Less 2 of4 WOAI’s Randy Beamer, one of San Antonio’s most prominent TV news anchors, is voicing what’s being seen as an anti-media message that mirrors President Trump’s as if it were his own opinion, when it actually is part of a company-wide script mandated by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group. 1 of4 WOAI anchors Randy Beamer and Delaine Mathieu appear side by side as they voice Sinclair’s mandated message.
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