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Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu
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Catch Sinclair's latest adventure in gall? Takes three slides to explain. So they force fed ex-Trump aide Boris Epshteyn's commentary to their 100 or so local stations. His claim: we had to tear gas those people to prevent an invasion! Hiding behind the logos of CBC, ABC, NBC...
...Sinclair presents these segments as local programming at network affiliates, when in reality they are "must run" dictates from corporate HQ in Baltimore and expressions of the controlling family's ideology. Then yesterday Sinclair tried to weasel out of responsibility, saying—
— that Epshteyn was merely presenting his personal views and doesn't speak for the company, when it is the company that cooked up this entire scheme, hired Epshteyn, and ordered stations to carry his screed without balance or rebuttal. The gall. Read:
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