The Inbox....

Let’s look in the inbox and see what you guys are talking about.

DM:

I agree 150% with you... how is the FCC allowing Sinclair to dismantle local newsrooms with no repercussions? And where is the outrage from the journalism community?

Having worked in DC for the last 10 years, I feel like so many Gen Z and Millennial journalists give two shits about small markets because of their desire to live and work in "the big city." And so, they aren't outraged (as they should be) when Sinclair shuts down newsrooms in Toledo, Medford, etc...

I've long thought TV stations will start dropping off (like newspapers) and you'll ultimately only have one or two per market. This might just be the start of that.

Email:

If you Google “issues/program lists fcc,” the fourth link is from a Davis Wright Tremaine post from 2009 about the quarterly issues/programs list that all stations need to prepare and place in their public files about issues facing their communities and the programs dealing with those issues as well as the punishments for failing to do so.

Wholeheartedly agree with you on this: if you’re airing nothing of local value about what’s going on in your community you should lose the privilege of the license to do so.

Email:

Your story on Perry Sook receiving a raise caught my eye. Mainly because you wrote, "That number is not even keeping up with inflation." When I worked for Nexstar-I was offered a two-year contract renewal in 2019. I would get a 1% raise over two years. My exact words to my news director were, "1%? That isn't even keeping up with the rate of inflation." Mind you, that was 2019...before inflation spiked. I'm now working in Communications. I earn 60% more, have all the time off I need, a generous retirement account PLUS a pension. I will always miss news and find it sad that one cannot make a decent living in the business.