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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by jsgo on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:03PM (#16832985)
From what I've seen, and I could be wrong, David Muir seems to deliver in a way that doesn't seem heavy in bias. Admittedly, I don't watch ABC a lot so I don't see a ton of him, but his content seems pretty impartial.
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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by chiefalchemist on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:19PM (#16833116)
Perfect example. He's nothing more than a talking head. He's reading a script off a teleprompter. He's there - and Katie Couric isn't - because he tests well and the rating are strong.

That doesn't make him a journalist. Nor does it make what falls from his lips news.

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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by jsgo on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:58PM (#16833415)
Will have to agree to disagree on that one. And I think he's there and Couric isn't is due to Couric at a certain point trying the Barbara Walters track pivoting into the talk show side of things.

But I think him being fairly interchangeable with another journalist is an indicator that his role isn't personality driven like the previously mentioned: he's there to deliver the news and that's essentially it. I think his Gaza Strip/Haiti/etc. work qualifies him as a journalist and from what I've seen of him, has delivered factual news (with varying levels of importance, but realistically, it is unlikely to have hard hitting items daily).

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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by chiefalchemist on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:26PM (#16834427)
If you have links to the segments mentioned I'd like to watch. Tia
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