I am so mad I could spit!
In our house, my parents have watched KBOI Channel 2 News in Boise, Idaho for 30 years and for the last few years I have watched it with them. I don't need to tell you that Idaho is a Red State, but by and large the Channel 2 News did not put an obvious agenda on screen that I was able to see until recently when I was shocked to see Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump administration mouthpiece on their evening news!
Tonight Boris went off on Nancy Pelosi and the “Democrat” Party in disarray. He spent around two minutes in the middle of the newscast with no segue or mention of this being an Editorial opinion piece, it was just presented as news. He also cherry-picked the ages of Party Leaders to try to show the Republicans as the Party of “young ideas” by highlighting Ryan’s relative youth and ignoring the dinosaurs: Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Up-Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch in the Party.
It was a straight up Propaganda piece that would be at home on ‘RT’ or 1984!
I called the KBOI News Director’s office to find out what was going on and to register a complaint and she told me that Sinclair (yes the oil company) Group had hired Boris as their “Political Reporter” , so he was on all of their stations now.
I complained that it was not a “News Piece”, but opinion with cherry-picked examples and wondered if they would give equal time to a Democrat- I even volunteered to “suit up” and go present an opposing view.
I was politely told that my complaint would be passed on to Sinclair. I do not find this satisfactory so I asked when I might expect to receive a response to my complaint from Sinclair. I left my name and number and said that I expected to hear from them so I could post their response in a Letter to the Editor of the Boise Statesman.
I want to ask for help from all Kossacks who read this to please contact the KBOI News Director and also the News Directors of their local Sinclair Stations to register disapproval of a cheap, partisan stunt. Let’s not let them get away with this- they are a publicly traded company trading under SBGI. Anyone here wise to the ways of Wall Street who knows how to get the word out to shareholders, please help if you can!
Here is the number for KBOI NEWS DIRECTOR:
208.472.2207
Thank you for helping to fight Big Brother and stop Boris’s Two Minute Hate!
Namaste