My local station coupled Drumpf with BIDEN as "presidents" - my email complaint & their answer
It's owned by Nexstar Media Group, previously owned by Sinclair. In the answer, where the copy is said to come from D.C., they use "former" for Drumpf, but I definitely did not hear it used either by the local intro or the remote reporter. Plus the block quoted blurb in the answer is a tiny part of the presented segment, which had a couple of video clips of Drumpf. And the answer with the "blessed day" is the F***You meme.
****WHAT I SAID:
The local news reader Sunday night read a story saying "TWO presidents spoke... " and started with TRUMP and longer, then moved to President BIDEN briefly and said that he "ALSO talked about politics." I don't know whether the copy is written locally or read from sources somewhere else, but your airwaves passed wrong information on more than one count:
1) We only have *ONE* president, and TRUMP is not it.
2) TRUMP did not talk about "politics" but rather spouted his usual deranged, anti-democracy *LIES*.
I've only viewed your products a couple of times over MANY years, and it was bad enough when the ATTKKISON right winger was featured with the Sinclair outfit. I thought your station wasn't affiliated with them anymore. If you are a Right Wing outlet, you should say so as full disclosure.
*******WHAT THEY ANSWERED (almost immediately) :
Hello, .
Yes, we have one sitting president. The story you’re referring to said this (copied and pasted directly from the script from our Washington bureau):
TWO PRESIDENTS ADDRESSED STATE PARTY CONVENTIONS LAST NIGHT. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP PROMISED NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS 2022 WILL HAND THE U.S. HOUSE BACK TO THE GOP. IN A VIRTUAL ADDRESS PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ASSURED WISCONSIN DEMOCRATS HE WOULD PROTECT THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JESSI TURNURE REPORTS.
The story talked about how Trump is still saying that he won the election and how he’s focusing on midterms. Considering he hasn’t made any appearances since leaving office, this is news as it would be with any president. I understand your issue with the wording, but technically everything is accurate. All former presidents are still addressed as “president.” Thank you for watching and have a blessed day.
******MY FINAL ANSWER:
I notice you had to qualify everything you said: "one SITTING president," "TECHNICALLY accurate" and "FORMER presidents"
To correct you on all counts: One SITTING president means one president, period. TECHNICAL accuracy admits it's not ACCURATE, period. And your saying FORMER makes my point. Your declaring some made up "rule" about former presidents always being called "President" is not a rule, just some media people currying favor with their former office holder guests. If you don't want to be real with your answers, don't bother at all, and do NOT answer this.
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= new reply since forum marked as read
Not a rule of law, but there are rules of grammar, rules of civility, rules of common practice, etc.
Now, your turn to tell us again that you won’t answer again
It’s deliberate on their part so you telling them they do it to curry favor is just saying the obvious. Thanks for slapping them around a bit! 
