4TH DISTRICT DEM LEANN JACOBSEN CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF SINCLAIR STATIONS

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The fallout for Sinclair Broadcasting stations continue after a viral video showed them all reading from the same script about “fake news.” Leann Jacobsen, one of the Democratic candidates looking to take on Steve King in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, is calling for a boycott of all the Sinclair stations that cover the Western Iowa seat. She’s also pledging to not run campaign TV ads on any of them and is encouraging her two Democratic primary opponents to do the same.

“The behavior and actions taken by Sinclair Broadcast Group hit at the very core of a free and independent press, a cornerstone of this great nation,” Jacobsen said in an email to her supporters this week. “This is what propaganda looks like and we are seeing it unfold right now.”

It’s a tactic that’s been gaining attention as national outrage on the left grows over the conservative media giant’s influence on local media stations. A Kentucky Democratic congressional candidate, Amy McGrath, drew coverage for her decision to pull her TV ads from Sinclair stations while in the middle of a competitive Democratic primary.

Sinclair owns quite a few outlets across Iowa. Among the owned stations are KPTH (Fox, Channel 44 Sioux City), KMEG (CBS, Channel 14 Sioux City), KDSM-TV (Fox, Channel 17 Des Moines), KGAN (CBS, Channel 2 Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), KFXA (Fox, Channel 28 Cedar Rapids/Waterloo), KTVO (ABC, Channel 2 Ottumwa).

https://iowastartingline.com/2018/04/06/4th-district-dem-leann-jacobsen-calls-boycott-sinclair-stations/


I agree with her one hundred percent, call the local car dealers, attorneys, etc, that place ads on these stations.............................

[Wwcd]

1. I just read about this also.. good to hear!

Link to tweet

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[Thekaspervote]

2. Oh please, let it catch on nation wide

[Wellstone ruled]

3. These are the folks who defend

NAZI wannabe Steve King.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[backtoblue]

5. Kick and rec nt

[SaintLouisBlues]

6. But I like the gas stations with the dinosaurs

Oh, you mean those stations with the white-guy dinosaurs.

I remember during the Kerry swiftboat, my local Sinclair (30 in STL) refused to answer the phone, but I put them on speed-dial and called them every chance I had just to clog-up their lines.

[marlakay]

7. I am not watching the news on that local

Station, but its the channel Colbert is on one of the few shows i watch on cbs.

[pecosbob]

8. Go get'em

I really don't like Steve King.

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. They are a SCOURGE. A plague on democracy and an open society.

There are so many of these....damn, I want to use a nasty word here...on the landscape these days. And it's impossible to know who to hate more...or less, if that's even possible.

Sinclair Group? Scaife? Mercers? Kochs? The differences are slight.