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More on the WLOS lay-offs

Jason Sandford November 24, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Here’s more from a loyal reader on the WLOS lay-offs:

Something that has gone unreported this week for obvious reasons, but layoffs have hit Sinclair Broadcast Group and WLOS. It first started at a corporate level. Here’s the e-mail text that came from the WLOS news director concerning the Washington, DC newsroom staff:

As of December 31st, the corporate news department, including the Washington, DC bureau will no longer be a resource for us. The company has decided to eliminate 15 people at the corporate level which includes 10 people in Baltimore and 5 in Washington.

Earlier this week, around 5 or 6 people were laid off at WLOS. Lots of worry going around the building.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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b.c.w. November 24, 2008

with respect and sympathy to those losing their jobs, i’m happy to see Sinclair as a whole take a hit. their hardline, obviously biased coverage, as well as their monopolistic control of local markets in the early part of the Bush reign was difficult to swallow for someone just tuning in to get the local news. if i wanted that sort of bias, i’d turn to Fox News. WLOS has been more tolerable since that volatile period cooled off.

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realityczech November 24, 2008

Both Bill and Mike pretty much hit the nail on the head. To refer to the crap that was shoveled out of Sinclair’s Washington DC "news" operation as a "resource" is way off the mark. That characterization does not come close to passing the muster of any "realityczech". The good people of News 13, most of them anyway, must be rejoicing at this latest corporate development. All they lost was a heavily biased and mandatory editorial ball & chain. But let’s not forget those folks whose jobs are suddenly gone, both up north and down here in Asheville. Happy Holidays indeed. Typical SBG.

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Mike November 24, 2008

Maybe because between NewsOne and CNN, the only thing the DC news bureau was useful for was getting a Sinclair-biased story. And especially since Mark Hyman left, the news coverage out of Sinclair was just a poor man’s version of Fox News, and with 20 Fox affiliates in the Sinclair stable, why reinvent the wheel?

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Bill November 24, 2008

how could the washington, dc news bureau cease to be a resource?

oh, that’s right… this is Sinclair

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