The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
The script came from Sinclair Broadcast Group, the countrys largest broadcaster, which owns or operates 193 television stations.
Last week, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a copy of the speech and reported that employees at a local news station there, KOMO, were unhappy about the script.
Sinclair regularly sends video segments to the stations it owns. These are referred to as must-runs, and they can include content like terrorism news updates, commentators speaking in support of President Trump or speeches from company executives like the one from Mr. Livingston last year.
Must-run segments are handed down to local news stations from a corporate headquarters. That was bad. But having news anchors have to read the script themselves is apparently new, and extra unnerving. ---
And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.