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Sinclair Fires Sick anchor GM Resigns in Protest

Yikes. Granted, Sinclair won't be the only company to do something like this. US labor law only requires employers to grant 13 weeks of unpaid medical leave.

Now, here's how a classy company handles one of their anchors taking a medical leave of absence:
https://www.whec.com/article/13296

WHEC/Rochester NY anchor Deanna Dewberry is treating her breast cancer, again. I used to watch Deanna when she worked at WISH-TV in Indianapolis, when she had not one, but two previous cancer treatments.
Not surprisingly, neither LIN Media (who owned WISH at the time), nor Hubbard (WHEC) has backed away from Deanna.
 
How's them 'must-runs' going for you NOW, Sinclair?! Firing a person with CANCER is an absolutely COLD and DISGUSTING thing to do. I hope the people at KIMA/KEPR, and KOMO, hear about this, and complain to corporate, too!
 
The best thing to do is NOT watch that station. Tell your friends they are scumbags and you shouldn’t watch. I don’t watch the local Sinclair station because of their must carry crap. This is just another good reason to avoid them. If I miss a few shows, I’m missing them for a good reason.
 
It certainly outwardly seems cruel, but they may have been planning to downsize anyway. I hope she recovers.
 
Very bad, agreed. Someone needs to be fired over this.

That said, KOMO in Seattle and KATU in Portland are both Sinclair stations in liberal markets. I do wonder how they are navigating all this, not just the unfair firing, but how they deal with "added" pressure to run Sinclair opinions...
 
Doesn't KOMO throw Kristine Frazao and Terrorism Alert Desk stuff to 4:30AM? That's what they were doing a while back...
 
Probably would help to let the big advertisers know what the Sinclair station they are running on is doing to its people. Sinclair might listen to advertiser's complaints or threats of moving taking their money to a rival TV station. That is an awful way to treat people. My younger brother is dealing with colon cancer right now.
 
There was a letter to the editor in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Someone heard a "news" story WLOS was required to carry, but it was nothing more than "fake news". But Sinclair apparently thought it was news. The writer lost respect for the station.
 
Hasn't Sinclair let Boris go recently? Or was it just a mass amount of complaints?
 
Boris Epshteyn is still with Sinclair.
 
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