#LocalNews channels across the country used a nearly identical script to push coverage of a controversial @WSJ article questioning President Joe #Biden’s mental fitness.
Here is the supercut by #PopularInformation@juddlegum] in 2 parts. It gets old fast, remarkably it’s a full 6 minutes of #LocalNews anchors across the country saying the same thing.
After the Wall Street Journal disgraced itself with that grotesquely sleazy anti-Biden story, the Sinclair Broadcast Group -- a local-station version of Fox "News" -- is using it to add to the right-wing smear campaign.
In its own way, Sinclair is worse than the Murdoch empire -- because many people still trust local news, wrongly in this case.
"There’s been little written about the specific demise of the local columnist amid the grander decline of local news, but in their new book 'What Works in Community News,' Dan Kennedy and Ellen Clegg dedicate a chapter to Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist Art Cullen’s staunch commitment to opinion writing for his Iowa community." #journalism#LocalNewshttps://www.cjr.org/analysis/worcester-sucks-i-love-it-bill-shaner-massachusetts.php