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Sinclair TV Anchor Suddenly Begins Reading News in Russian
April 2, 2018
AKRON, OHIO Viewers of the Sinclair station in Akron were startled on Monday when a longtime news anchor, Carol Foyler, inexplicably began reading the evening news report in Russian.
Foyler, who is not of Russian heritage, greeted her audience with a hearty Zdravstvuyte, and then read the evenings top stories entirely in her newly adopted language.
After racing through the local coverage, Foyler abruptly segued to footage of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, admiring the launch of his nations highly touted new Satan-2 missile.
Viewers flooded the station with complaints, with many expressing alarm that, in the words of one audience member, something was up with Carol.
Maybe shes taking Russian classes in her spare time, or something like that, Harland Dorrinson, a loyal viewer of the Sinclair station, said. Still, it made it really hard to understand the weather.
Responding to the outpouring of concern about her, Foyler later issued the following English-language statement: I am being treated well here. My loved ones need not worry.
By Andy Borowitz
(The Borowitz Report)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sinclair-tv-anchor-suddenly-begins-reading-news-in-russian?mbid=social_facebook
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)padah513
(2,502 posts)They do get the heart pumping!
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)But not without a wince.
Orange Free State
(611 posts)Civic Justice
(870 posts).... eventually a Hitler Styled Regime will have succeeded in "diminishing the press".
be careful how you make jokes...
malaise
(269,004 posts)Please
marble falls
(57,093 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)Civic Justice
(870 posts)It is a disgust at the madness and insidiousness of Trumps Acts...
The point is, it does not phase him.... Just my personal thought, is we have to engage actual dialog to go along with the humor.... so, those right winger that do come here to read... can not only hear the "humorous disgust", but also let them know the thoughts behind the humor....
Words matter and Dialog conveys the meaning with substance.
marble falls
(57,093 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)What specifically and objectively leads you to allege as such?
brewens
(13,588 posts)I know the guy a little too. It was kind of like he just blurted that out.
The way I understand it, Obama's people made some use of FB that they knew they were allowed to do, nothing like Cambridge Analytical and not related to the story in any way.
That got my attention. I hadn't noticed a any of that but, but, but Clinton/Obama/Hillary.... every time they had to report a Trump scandal. I was totally unaware of the Sinclair situation. I checked and sure as shit, Sinclair owns them now. If all of a sudden those guys are bending everything right intentionally, I'm gonna know it. It'll stand out like a turd in a punch bowl!
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)There is a message behind this satire.
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)No such luck
malaise
(269,004 posts)marble falls
(57,093 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)giving them overpaid jobs for which they know, deep down, they are not qualified. They know they'll never have those salaries in an honest employment situation. Their spending habits are likely already tied to better pay, so they are trapped, held hostage, into repeating the Sinclair dogma. Has anyone closely observed their eyes blinking for hidden messages?
marble falls
(57,093 posts)apropos of nothing - maybe thats why sports franchises go over the top in wages and benefits of those atheletes being able to provide TV content that draws billions in advertising trillions in GNP.
Unfortunately most us don't have employers who over pay anyone of us for anything.
kentuck
(111,097 posts)That's incredible!
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)you skeered me