Ohio TV Anchor On Anti-Obama ‘Special’: ‘I Had No Choice’ (video)

[mfcorey1]

ERIC LACH NOVEMBER 7, 2012, 6:15 AM 39841
An Ohio local TV news anchor who participated in an anti-Obama program on the eve of election day took to social media on Tuesday to defend herself from critics. Yolanda Harris, an anchor at ABC affiliate WSYX in Columbus, insisted several times that she “had no choice in the matter.”

As TPM reported, WSYX was one of at least three television stations operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group that aired “election specials” Monday night. The specials featured segments and packages produced by the parent company but presented by local news teams. While not completely devoid of positive talk about Obama, the programs featured some of the most partisan criticisms of the President and little, if any, criticism of Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

“Did the administration lie about terrorist attacks on a U.S. consulate in Libya on September 11th?” Harris said at one point during WSYX’s 6:30 broadcast on Monday, which ran instead of World News with Diane Sawyer. “Everyone from the State Department to the White House wanted you to believe it was a protest over an anti-Muslim movie. The U.S. ambassador and three others died in that attack. The administration alleges misinformation for blaming the deaths of four Americans on a movie. But the truth finally surfaced amid claims our government knew of the terrorist attack all along.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/yolanda_harris_wsyx_obama_sinclair.php?ref=fpb

[Scuba]

1. What was the "or else"?

[RockaFowler]

2. Lose your job

Every Sinclair station aired that crap. What a bunch of bull-excrement

[Scuba]

3. I understand her dilemma.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Same thing happened in SLC

yesterday,same Sh*t,three stations,2 owned by Sinclair and 1 owned by the Mormon Church. You figure it out. So much for press freedom and fairness.

[Ya Basta]

5. Ok Yolanda Harris I accept your excuse, but...

then that makes you a sell-out and a sell-out has no credibility. And in your profession credibility still matters a lot more than you might think.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

6. No excuse

Her integrity is for sale, and cheap, because sinclair is pathetically spendthrifty.