Internal Email: Sinclair CEO Tells Employees Not To Let Extremists Bully Them
Source: Huffington Post
04/10/2018 05:15 pm ET
He described recent criticism of the company as “politically motivated attacks.”
By Maxwell Strachan
Chris Ripley, the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, sent out a company-wide email on Tuesday in which he vowed to stay the course despite what he described as “politically motivated attacks” from outside the company.
In the email, obtained by HuffPost, Ripley apologized multiple times to any Sinclair employees who had faced personal criticism since ThinkProgress and Deadspin posted video compilations late last month of local Sinclair news anchors reciting the same script about “irresponsible, one-sided news stories.”
The videos led to both internal and external anger. CNN called the anchors “zombies.” Others called them much worse. Inside the conservative-leaning Sinclair, multiple anchors, including one who spoke with HuffPost, said they had initially protested the script, but ultimately relented due to restrictive contractual obligations. The response to the viral videos was “brutal,” said the anchor who spoke to HuffPost.
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Black. 
A little inner reflection would work well in this situation, Ripley. 
