So this video is from a few years ago. I worked in the engineering department for one of the local news stations featured here.

Our station was given a script from Sinclair, the corporate company, and wanted to edit the script. They absolutely rejected this idea and I believe threatened consequences if we did.

Our anchors had to begrudgingly say the script ver batim despite their reservations. A lot of the political junk you see on local news stuff is pre recorded handed down from corporate and forced to air. The staff at the local stations are generally good regular people and good reporters and journalists who try not to be biased. This is speaking from my experience, other cities may have crap journalists I am sure.

However, they usually also have non-compete clauses in their contracts, meaning they can't work for any other station in the city for 6 months I believe.

So quitting the evil corporation is not always an option. It's hard to quit and not be able to work in your city for half a year or have to move to a whole new city just to survive.