Sinclair Broadcast Group is ending its political commentary segments, most prominently those featuring former Trump administration official Boris Epshteyn. NBC News first reported on Sinclair’…
NBC News first reported on Sinclair’s announcement, in which the station group said that it will be devoting more resources to investigative journalism. This Friday will be the final commentary segment featuring Epshteyn andEpshteyn, who has the title of chief political correspondent, is remaining with the company to work on other efforts.and to have produced poignant and insightful commentary for these last two plus years.
Sinclair is among the largest station groups, with 193 stations. The commentaries were must run segments that ran on newscasts across the country. “We have to shine a light on our value proposition every quarter hour, in every newscast,” the company said in a statement to its staff,. “Therefore, we will be expanding our local investigative journalism footprint in our daily newscasts. We are excited to dedicate more time in our newscasts to report on critical and relevant issues.”
Epshteyn’s commentaries at times generated some controversy that drew a response from the company. After one November commentary on immigration, in which he referred to an attempted migrant “invasion” at the Mexican border, the company tweeted that “the opinions expressed in this segment do not reflect the views of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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