{"id":15403,"date":"2017-09-07T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:21:39","slug":"editorial-uses-fox-32-staffers-prop-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/09\/07\/editorial-uses-fox-32-staffers-prop-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial uses Fox 32 staffers to prop up the boss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dennis Welsh<\/p><\/div>\n

Dennis Welsh is at it again.<\/p>\n

The last time we looked in on the vice president and general manager of WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a> he was seated on a throne <\/a>while lecturing viewers about the evils of nepotism in Illinois and Chicago politics.<\/p>\n

In his latest editorial<\/a> on the Fox-owned station, Welsh has a new gimmick: He punctuates his commentary on the state\u2019s \u201cinsane unfunded pension debt\u201d with video inserts from seven unidentified taxpayers. (Here is the link.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Dennis Welsh (2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

Who are these supposed ordinary citizens expressing their outrage over high taxes and government workers\u2019 pensions? For a few seconds in small print at the bottom of the screen it says: \u201cIllinois Taxpayer enactments performed by Fox 32 employees.\u201d In other words, they\u2019re all Fox 32 staffers being used as props for the boss.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not all. Fox 32 is paying to promote Welsh\u2019s rant in Facebook ads, according to Illinois Working Together,<\/a> a coalition of unions including chairs of the Illinois AFL-CIO and Chicago Federation of Labor.<\/p>\n

\u201c@Fox32News is PAYING TO PROMOTE this video that blames all IL taxes on pensions + advocates constitution changes,\u201d Illinois Working Together tweeted<\/a> this week. \u201cIt's one thing for a newscast to air its political views\/advocate policy change. It's a very different thing to *pay to promote* those views. Apparently the \u201cviews expressed\u201d may or may not represent @Fox32News. So . . . who paid for the Facebook ads?\u201d<\/p>\n

Welsh did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Fox 32 sources said the editorial was produced outside of the news department and did not involve news personnel. \u201cWe\u2019re not happy about it,\u201d one insider said.<\/p>\n

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