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uppityperson

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Thu Mar 23, 2017, 10:10 PM Mar 2017

Was KOMO just bullied into airing right-wing rhetoric?

http://crosscut.com/2017/03/komos-bullied-by-sinclair-right-wing-rhetoric/

So here’s something you don’t see every day on local TV news: An attack on mainstream media delivered by the person running the largest TV broadcast company in the country.

At 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Scott Livingston, the Vice President of News with Sinclair Broadcast Group, delivered this warning on air on KOMO-TV airwaves:

“I’m sure you know about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country,” he said. “The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, national media outlets are publishing these same fake stories without fact checking first. Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think....(more)



Here's komo direct link.
http://komonews.com/content-concerns
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