This is a really, REALLY, REALLY bad comment. Like awful, putrid, horrible, etc.

Emily, since I got back from Italy a few months ago.. A little tip

I cried that I had no shoes till I met an idiot who burned his because he wanted to “own” the libs then I laughed.

If I got a ball I’d give it to a kid

I guess I don’t read it the same way (admittedly I haven’t seen anything beyond your blog). I would rather the ball tossed to me by a guy wearing a Cubs jersey on the field than the ball given to me by a guy wearing a Cubs jersey in the second row. If this guy truly is the official ball moderator at Wrigley, he should…

The important thing is that you’ll get it right next time. What is the internet but a safe place to iterate on your mistakes in an encouraging and understanding public forum?

As an adult who never got a foul ball as a kid, I don’t exactly like the notion that it means more to the kid than the adult getting a foul ball, but there are a few hard and fast rules one should follow in this situation:

I don’t see how the fact that the guy was “nice” earlier excuses what he did in the moment. The ball was clearly meant for the little kid. I don’t care if it was his first ball or his 50th. I don’t care if the guy saved 100 puppies on his way to the game. He interjected himself into a transaction that didn’t concern…

“Court-martial" as in martial law, not Marshal Dillon. 

THANK YOU!

Not to mention the Klingons started the war, a Klingon murdered Georgiou, and the only thing Michael did wrong was go against her commanding officer. 

Finally, all those years of reading Memory Alpha have paid off.

The studio is shopping it to other networks.

I have a corgi and she’s everything the internet promised and then some!

Agreed. Sinclair can broadcast essentially whatever message they want on the stations they own, but the anchors shouldn’t have allowed the company to use them and their relationship with viewers to allow the message to be better perceived. In one of the instances I mentioned in my original post, that’s essentially…

I would say the problem is more that the anchors apparently were not allowed to use what used to be a standard disclaimer about the following being a statement from station managemen/corporate management or similar.

I have an alternative solution to the problem: Sinclair’s anchors need to unionize and strike. They are no more or less powerless in this situation than their viewers are, and are actively working against the audiences best interests (and the anchors KNOW this).

If you are standing there reciting a speech that you disagree with and presenting it as if it is your opinion then yes, you have sold your integrity.

No, fuck that. They deserve the scorn and should be held accountable. I spent ten years as a broadcast journalist before a career change and twice got to the point of being willing to walk—once even drafted my letter of resignation—over bullshit ownership mandates. It would have been a huge hardship to quit a job with…

Yup. Sinclair should get the vast majority of the ire, but the anchors are complicit. It sucks that this country doesn’t allow the mobility for them to just up and leave, and it sucks that they signed horrific contract terms to land a job in a high-competition field, but that doesn’t change that they are knowingly…