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Local news' political slant?
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Sinclair Must Runs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FibjgontIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhUk5v3ohE
Yes If you live in Las Vegas, Baltimore, Reno and Washington D.C. Your Sinclair Owned station is known for putting political bias on local news segments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65FUN-o8v4Q
KDOC Los Angeles back in the 1980's was known for putting Wally George on TV. If your wondering its basically what we think of Donald Trump in this decade.
But then again Political Slant is more visible on Internet TV and Cable TV though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FibjgontIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhUk5v3ohE
Yes If you live in Las Vegas, Baltimore, Reno and Washington D.C. Your Sinclair Owned station is known for putting political bias on local news segments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65FUN-o8v4Q
KDOC Los Angeles back in the 1980's was known for putting Wally George on TV. If your wondering its basically what we think of Donald Trump in this decade.
But then again Political Slant is more visible on Internet TV and Cable TV though.
Pretty much all local news has the same biases:
Economic development good, factories closing bad.
Firefighter saves puppy good, humane society begging for donations of food bad
Incumbent politicians get free air time whenever (e.g. a sitting mayor or sheriff will be involved in legit stories just about every week), challengers usually do not get as much time.
And oh yeah - if it bleeds it leads.
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When it comes to national politics, the stations will more or less have the same biases as their networks and/or ownership. Because most of their coverage of Washington will come from the networks Washington bureau - and some groups have their own Washington bureau (Nexstar, Tribune, probably others). Although it is worth noting that, in 2016, Donald J. Trump gave a lot of interviews to local newscasters. Likely in hopes of generating hoopla locally, but it is plausible that the Trump campaign thought such interviews would be less contentious simply because these guys in local news are less well versed in Gotcha! journalism.
Economic development good, factories closing bad.
Firefighter saves puppy good, humane society begging for donations of food bad
Incumbent politicians get free air time whenever (e.g. a sitting mayor or sheriff will be involved in legit stories just about every week), challengers usually do not get as much time.
And oh yeah - if it bleeds it leads.
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When it comes to national politics, the stations will more or less have the same biases as their networks and/or ownership. Because most of their coverage of Washington will come from the networks Washington bureau - and some groups have their own Washington bureau (Nexstar, Tribune, probably others). Although it is worth noting that, in 2016, Donald J. Trump gave a lot of interviews to local newscasters. Likely in hopes of generating hoopla locally, but it is plausible that the Trump campaign thought such interviews would be less contentious simply because these guys in local news are less well versed in Gotcha! journalism.
Well My Fox O&O KTVU San Francisco on the Topic of Climate Change does not side with the President Trump.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/global-warming-has-contributed-to-wildfire-intensity-stanford-expert-says
http://www.ktvu.com/news/politics/e...s-about-california-wasting-water-during-fires
All the News Director and staff at KTVU Fox 2 News has to do here is do a wildfire update and talk to Calfire officials, Environmental studies experts and victims in the area that had to flee a wildfire and get lung problems in the process because of the wildfires. KTVU Fox 2 News does not do interviews with Coal leaders or the President when it comes to Climate change issues due to the fact that the majority of Fox2's audience do care about environmental concerns.
But then again Jack Abernethy the leader of Fox O&O division made rules that protect the local News Directors and staff from caving into the national politics that the national Fox News is known for.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/global-warming-has-contributed-to-wildfire-intensity-stanford-expert-says
http://www.ktvu.com/news/politics/e...s-about-california-wasting-water-during-fires
All the News Director and staff at KTVU Fox 2 News has to do here is do a wildfire update and talk to Calfire officials, Environmental studies experts and victims in the area that had to flee a wildfire and get lung problems in the process because of the wildfires. KTVU Fox 2 News does not do interviews with Coal leaders or the President when it comes to Climate change issues due to the fact that the majority of Fox2's audience do care about environmental concerns.
But then again Jack Abernethy the leader of Fox O&O division made rules that protect the local News Directors and staff from caving into the national politics that the national Fox News is known for.
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News Corp, and the Murdochs in particular, are astute business people. Turning KTVU into a Fox News clone in the liberal Bay Area would be VERRRRRRRRRRRY bad for business. KTVU only became a Fox O&O about 3 years ago - previously it was a Cox station, and their news department had received great respect and critical acclaim for decades. Fox is smart enough not to throw that all away.
Other than evolutionary change in the news department since the Fox takeover (the occasional new anchor, news sets), the only change I can think of is that "KTVU Channel 2 News" was re-titled "KTVU Fox2 News". That's it.
People forget that even the national Fox News network is not an impregnable right-wing monolith. Even nationally, there are a few exceptions, such as Shep Smith, who is clearly liberal.
Very recently the reason that KTLA Los Angeles didn't go to Sinclair was because LA Viewers felt that the station that made Larry McCormick and Hal Fishman legends would turn into a Trump propaganda outlet. Plus the notion that Sinclair uses Sidecar companies as in Cunningham and Deerfield stopped that deal from taking place by the FCC and DOJ.
Now Back to Fox the Reason why KTVU went to Fox O&O because the network wanted revenue access to 49ers games though when they made a PR explanation on that.
At least in Hawaii, the stations here tend to be neutral, given the state being heavily Democratic.
Hal Fishman hid it well the last couple of decades as LA's beloved old grandpa anchorman, but he was a right-winger. He started in TV as a right wing commentator - billed as "Dr. Harold Fishman" in the 50's. Then he joined the George Putnam News on KTLA in the 60s. Putnam, as older Angelinos know - was a decades long right-wing commentator, on TV, then later radio until he died just a few years ago - with a deep voiced pompous delivery. The Ted Baxter character on the Mary Tyler Moore show was based on Putnam. If George were alive today, he would no doubt be a Fox News anchor. Fishman was his co-anchor for many years, first on KTLA, then KTTV, then back to KTLA again. Larry McCormick joined Putnam and Fishman as the weatherman around 1970, though as far as I know, McCormick was not conservative.
Don't forget Wally George of KDOC-TV Los Angeles he was straight up Donald Trump before the Current President even considered how his rallies would be popular 35 years later.
If Wally George was Alive today he would either do a Youtube show or a segment on Sinclair News.
Wally George wasn't a news anchor - just a right-wing talk host who was outrageous enough to attract a following by being over-the-top. In fact, I think he would have been a bit over-the-top for Sinclair. George would just make them look stupid.
Wally wasn't even original. About the same time, there was Morton Downey Jr., who was syndicated nationally, not just on a dumpy independent station out of Orange County.
But really - the right-wing TV shock-talk genre dates back to the mid 1960's with people like Joe Pyne (KTTV, Los Angeles), and Alan Burke (WNEW, New York). Those were both Metromedia stations, and MM specialized in those shows for a few years. Pyne first got popular at Metromedia's LA radio talk station KLAC, where he did morning drive, and would insult housewives on the air - even those that agreed with him, politically.
Being "anti-Trump" is not liberal. It's means you're paying attention!
Don't Forget Gentrification that its like third rail city politics that gets covered a lot on Local news especially in San Francisco and it collides with the national talk of Income inequality. Plus School District budget meetings they take on the local version of whats happening in congress in some areas.
Coverage of gentrification doesn't really collide with talk of income inequality. San Francisco is an example. Gentrification drives the lack of supply of affordable housing which mostly disadvantages poor people who can't afford to rent any place livable. That's one of the reasons we have so many homeless.
So gentrification exacerbates income equality. Despite SF's liberal politics, income inequality is far worse in the SF Bay Area than in most any place else in the USA.
https://www.foxla.com/news/356273710-video
Also Fox 11 Los Angeles did a similar take on Climate Change as in the Al Gore Interview. And this is because Los Angeles Area Residents have a similar issue to deal with such as Climate Change is increasing wildfires and its a concern in California Overall though. Its a similar argument though.
Very Recently WSB-TV, WFXT and KIRO-TV all Cox Owned stations were rumored to go to Sinclair. There were concerns that the Cox staff will be pressured to say Pro-Trump Stuff on air like WFXT and WSB-TV
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/10/9/this-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-cox-employees
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/10/9/this-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-cox-employees
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