News Anchor Leaving Sinclair Affiliate, 'I don't fit well with Sincair News Model'

[Norbert]

News anchor Rob Braun says it was "time to move on" after 35 years at WKRC-TV because "I don't fit well with the Sinclair News model."

Cincinnati's longest-tenured main anchor, in his first public comment about his departure, says he wasn't fired and he's not retiring.

Channel 12 "is NOT forcing me out," Braun wrote on his Facebook page late Wednesday. "In fact they offered me a generous contract. I am choosing to leave. There is no 'real story.'

"Sometimes in life, you just know, it's time to move on. I don't feel I fit well with the Sinclair News model."

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Braun clashed with his bosses last year when Sinclair ordered news anchors to read a commentary complaining about media companies pushing "their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think." Two Channel 12 staffers said Braun tried to rewrite Sinclair's script in his own words, but it was rejected.

He did read the Sinclair script last year but I'll give him credit for trying, and choosing to leave this situation rather than be a company yes man.

https://www.wvxu.org/post/rob-braun-i-dont-fit-well-sinclair-news-model#stream/0

[True Blue American]

1. Rob Braun

Is the Son of Bob Braun, one of the most well known Broadcasters in the Cincinnati area.

As well respected as the Nick Clooney family. I can not remember a time when those 2 families were not on radio or TV.

And we all know what George and Nick are! They came from the Paul Dixon era. Bonnie Lou!

[Buckeyeblue]

9. I grew up watching Bob Braun

And to a lesser extent Paul Dixon (he passed away suddenly when I was 4 or 5). But my mother enjoyed watching them both. Bob Braun had all the Reds players on all the time, so that was fun.

[True Blue American]

13. Paul never recovered from the loss

of his only Son. He finally came back to the show but died within a year.

My neighbors Son was his room mate in College. He died in an auto accident.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. 🎵 He's no longer on WKRC in Cincinnati... 🎵

I hope Bailey, Johnny and Venus left with him.

[Celerity]

3. Sinclair and its RW ilk are a multi-decade cancer upon the American body politic.

Impossible to underestimate the damage they have done.

[CousinIT]

4. Sinclair wants their news anchors to complain about Sinclair on air?

Sinclair ordered news anchors to read a commentary complaining about media companies pushing "their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think." <----- THAT'S SINCLAIR!

[barbtries]

6. yep.

check who owns your local station.

[Kablooie]

5. Sinclair, like Trump, blames others for their own sins.

They are the ones pushing an agenda, not mainstream media.

[barbtries]

7. projection.

something the right has raised to an art and trump relies upon heavily. hillary and the russians?!

[samnsara]

8. good for him..at least he will retire with his dignity intact..

[keith sw]

12. He isn't retiring

He will eventually catch on with one of the other news stations in Cincinnati. He’s a pro and very well liked and trusted by the area folks

[UTUSN]

10. Excellent!

[usaf-vet]

11. If and when the democrats ever take complete control in Washington, THEY NEED TO FIX....

.... this "propaganda" monopoly by breaking it up and restoring the Fairness Doctrine.

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the FCC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine