Saturday, November 19, 2005

Sinclair Employees Claim They Were Ordered To Slant News

---In interviews appearing in GQ magazine, the employees describe how they were subjected to political litmus tests before being hired, how they were ordered to report only "good news" about Iraq, how an interview with President Bush was delivered to stations with orders to replace the image of the interviewer with that of the local anchor, and how stations were required to run a nightly right-wing editorial delivered by Sinclair exec Mark Hyman that once accused the late Peter Jennings of "appearing to favor terrorists over America."---

(One local producer said that when she used a graphic to identify Hyman's commentary as an

"editorial," Sinclair officials ordered her to remove the offending word.)

-----MORE------

No comments: