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FEBRUARY 8, 2020: Seeking to be Independent candidate in AL 6th Cong'l district.
CLICK on label "A. Current status" below right.
I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections.https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#alpolitics
@ParkerReports I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @whnt willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
@CarolineTVNews I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @waff48 willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
@Kym_nbc15 I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @mynbc15 willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
@LillianLalo I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @cbs_42 willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
@kaymccabetv I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 54 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @ALNewsNetwork willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
@ShannonWVTM13 I think it is fair to say that Alabama TV stations are failing Alabama at this point in time of 52 days to go until the May 24th primary day in the 2022 elections. Is anyone at @WVTM13 willing to say to the contrary? https://t.co/l6FGuB0BAM#rdscheck
To AL TV stations: I've been calling TV ads you run for candidates "political diarrhea" & for you to make editorial comment re same. Please note even political diarrhea spewer Tim James thinks there should be "deeper examination" of the TV ads.https://t.co/wMQdZryEbc#alpoliticshttps://t.co/mXTQASFGpx
To: AL TV reporters Below tweet is prompted by @yhn article reporting #alsen candidates' views on 2020 election being stolen or not. Ask candidates whether they think U.S. is mired in 2020 and what realistically will get U.S. out of mire.https://t.co/wMQdZryEbc#alpoliticshttps://t.co/bX35pfg0y7
To AL TV stations: Please discuss Katie Britt's "broad immigration platform" with the other #alsen candidates and find out the extent to which the other candidates agree with the platform#alpoliticshttps://t.co/gi8VvziEb7#FoxNews#alpolitics
3/30/22 Update I have received no response from the Alabama Broadcasters Association in response to the email I sent to them, which email is set out at AL Broadcasters Assoc. and academics re TV ad asininity No Alabama television station has provided to me a grade of itself in fulfilling its civic minded obligation in connection with the 2022 elections. See What is your TV station's grade in civics? No Alabama television station has provided to me the name of a lead reporter covering the Alabama U,S, Senate race or covering the gubernatorial election. 2022 elections. See More haranguing of TV stations
Everyday with this man as president puts our nation in harms way as he says worldly things that he then can’t remember or twists them backward. That’s deeply troublesome. #alpoliticshttps://t.co/BbOkmKaSAY
Despite the fact that President Joe Biden is the most photographed and recorded man on the planet right now, and all his words are scrutinized, Biden has declared that many of the things he has said in the last week were not meant the way they clearly sounded. This includes chemical weapons, troops in Ukraine and regime change in Russia. He and his administration have walked back multiple statements but the president himself seems to not know that or walk back the walk back.
The most important statement made by President Biden is clearly the statement about regime change in Russia when he said, “[Vladimir Putin] cannot remain in power.” While the administration said it was not in his prepared remarks, Biden said it and is now saying he didn’t mean it. He declared. “I want to make it clear: I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change.”
Please signify that your TV station is serious about its journalistic coverage of the 2022 Alabama gubernatorial election by tweeting the name of your lead reporter covering the gubernatorial race for your TV station.
I think said lead reporter should watch the below 2h 22min 2022 Gubernatorial Candidate Forum hosted by Eagle Forum, LOCAL Alabama, the Thatcher Coalition and 1819 News.
More haranguing of AL TV stations: Please signify your TV station is serious about its coverage of AL gubernatorial election by tweeting name of lead reporter covering race. Said lead reporter should watch below Gubernatorial Candidate Forum.#alpoliticshttps://t.co/IssrySE0Qz
@Bryan1819News In Gubernatorial Candidate Forum, you referred to "shielded from the truth" organizations. I was unclear who they were. Are local TV stations in your "shielded from the truth" category? If so, all of them, or particular ones?https://t.co/TgcCqhDCUr#alpolitics
Can @AlabamaEagle and LOCAL Alabama representatives Allison Sinclair & Stephanie Smith hosting Gubernatorial Candidate Forum say whether local TV stations are in @Bryan1819News' category of "shielded from the truth" organizations?#alpoliticshttps://t.co/XoW5UshtzM
Thank you, @toddcstacy. Every Alabama TV station and news reporter who wants to take themselves seriously during the next 60 days regarding the #alsen election needs to watch your last night's show and your interviews with Durant and Britt.https://t.co/tND32uaIWg#alpolitics
In podcast @dhmccain says "ideologically there is not a tremendous difference between candidates" (3:52) and talks about the "so much [campaign ad] spending" to be done which we know "moves the needle" (4:51). Ask candidates about that?#alpolitics https://t.co/XPWQny2UAC
I have sent to the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in care of Dr. Mark Nelson, who is Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and who is also the Educational Advisor to the Alabama Broadcasters Association, the below email:
From: Rob Shattuck >
To: mnelson
Sent: Fri, Mar 18, 2022 5:01 pm
Subject: For Alabama Broadcasters Association - editorializing by Alabama TV stations
Dear Dr. Nelson,
I could not find on the Alabama Broadcasters Association website an email address for the Association, and I have chosen to send this email in care of you as the Educational Advisor to the Association.
Additionally, I consider your being Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama to be advantageous for pursuing the purpose of this email.
I have spent several months pressing Alabama TV stations about their public service editorializing practices, including whether their policy is that their television station does not undertake a public service editorializing function.
The negative impression I have received is that Alabama TV stations choose not undertake public service editorializing. The basis for my negative impression is set out at Editorializing by AL TV stations.
The purpose of this email is to inquire of the Association what the sense of the Association is about the extent to which Alabama TV stations undertake a public service editorializing function. If the Association's sense is that some TV stations do undertake that function, and some do not, I would be interested in learning which TV stations do and which do not.
If my impression that Alabama TV stations generally do not undertake a public service editorializing function is correct, also I would like to learn why.
Is it because of financial and business considerations that the TV stations do not editorialize?
Is it because the TV stations do not have qualified staff who are capable of carrying out a public service editorializing function?
Are there other reasons?
Thank you for whatever consideration the Association gives to this email and such response that the Association is able to give me.
Sincerely,
Dr. Nelson forwarded my email to the Alabama Broadcasters Association President, Sharon Tinsley.
From: Mark Nelson
To: Rob Shattuck
Cc: Sharon Tinsley
Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2022 9:57 am
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] For Alabama Broadcasters Association - editorializing by Alabama TV stations
Dear Mr. Shattuck,
Thank you for your email. I am forwarding your inquiry to the ABA President, Sharon Tinsley.
Sincerely,
Mark D. Nelson, Ph.D.
Dean
College of Communication & Information Sciences
I replied to Dean Nelson as follows:
From: Rob Shattuck
To: Mark Nelson
Cc: Sharon Tinsley
Sent: Sun, Mar 20, 2022 7:08 am
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] For Alabama Broadcasters Association - editorializing by Alabama TV stations
Thank you very much for for forwarding my inquiry to the ABA President, Sharon Tinsley.
I look forward to receiving any response that the ABA is able to provide.
In the meantime, for what it's worth, I have added to my commentary on the subject, which added commentary can be found at the link: AL TV stations - 66 days to go.
Again, thanks.
Following the above email interchange with with Dean Nelson of College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, I have sent emails to professors at the Auburn University School of Communication & Journalism, the UAB Department of Communication Studies, the Samford University Communication and Media Department, and the University of Montevallo's Department of Communication. My emails to the professors included my email interchange with Dean Nelson and read as follows:
From: Rob Shattuck To: ____@auburn.edu Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 4:22 am Subject: Broadcast Journalism - editorializing by Alabama TV stations Dear Dr. Blankenship, Please take a look at the below email interchange I have had with the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in care of Dr. Mark Nelson, who is Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and who is also the Educational Advisor to the Alabama Broadcasters Association. The email interchange concerns the public service editorializing practices and policies of Alabama TV stations, including whether or not their policy is not to undertake a public service editorializing function. If editorializing by Alabama TV stations is a subject of interest to any Broadcast Journalism professor or student at the Auburn University School of Communication & Journalism, please pass this email along to them. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
From: Rob Shattuck To: ____@uab.edu Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 4:21 am Subject: Broadcasting Specialization - editorializing by Alabama TV stations Dear Professor Franks, Please take a look at the below email interchange I have had with the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in care of Dr. Mark Nelson, who is Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and who is also the Educational Advisor to the Alabama Broadcasters Association. The email interchange concerns the public service editorializing practices and policies of Alabama TV stations, including whether or not their policy is not to undertake a public service editorializing function. If editorializing by Alabama TV stations is a subject of interest to any Broadcasting Specialization professor or student at the UAB Department of Communication Studies, please pass this email along to them. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> To: ____@samford.edu Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 6:35 pm Subject: Communication and Media -editorializing by Alabama TV stations Dear Professor Carey, I am contacting you in Samford's Communication and Media Department because your biography shows your teaching area to be print and online journalism, which seems to be closest of the Department biographies for the purpose of this email. Please take a look at the below email interchange I have had with the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in care of Dr. Mark Nelson, who is Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and who is also the Educational Advisor to the Alabama Broadcasters Association. The email interchange concerns the public service editorializing practices and policies of Alabama TV stations, including whether or not their policy is not to undertake a public service editorializing function. If editorializing by Alabama TV stations is a subject of interest to any professor or student in Samford's University Communication and Media Department, please pass this email along to them. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> To: _____@montevallo.edu Sent: Tue, Mar 22, 2022 6:18 pm Subject: Mass Communication - editorializing by Alabama TV stations Dear Dr. Cofield, Please take a look at the below email interchange I have had with the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in care of Dr. Mark Nelson, who is Dean and Professor of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and who is also the Educational Advisor to the Alabama Broadcasters Association. The email interchange concerns the public service editorializing practices and policies of Alabama TV stations, including whether or not their policy is not to undertake a public service editorializing function. If editorializing by Alabama TV stations is a subject of interest to any Mass Communication professor or student in the University of Montevallo's Department of Communication, please pass this email along to them. Thank you very much. Sincerely,
4/8/22 update
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: [email addresses of Professors Nelson, Blankenship, Franks, Carey and Cofield]
Sent: Fri, Apr 8, 2022 6:29 pm
Subject: Journalistically respectable Alabama TV coverage of 2022 elections
Dear Professors Nelson, Blankenship, Franks, Carey and Cofield,
I am an Alabama citizen who desires journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections by local Alabama TV stations.
My opinion is that there is not journalistically respectable coverage unless the TV stations provide their own commentary to viewers about candidates and issues in the election.
Such commentary may be directly expressed to viewers, or be indirectly expressed by means of questions that are asked of candidates in TV interviews.
For weeks I have been pressing the TV stations about their journalistic coverage of the 2022 elections.
The stations have provided no response, except that one TV reporter said, "Local TV stations don't editorialize. We leave that to newspapers and cable."
Based on what I have been able to observe and based on the non-response from the TV stations, my conclusion is that the TV stations have not provided journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections to date (i.e., have not provided their own commentary to viewers about candidates and issues), and it seems unlikely they will provide such commentary during the critical next 45 days before the May 24th primary.
If my conclusion is correct, there are possible explanations, including financial and business considerations preventing the TV stations from providing commentary (particularly the revenues the stations receive for running the TV ads of the candidates), and a lack of qualified staff capable of formulating and presenting commentary to TV station viewers about candidates and issues.
Further, if my conclusion is correct, I believe that the TV stations not providing commentary to viewers about candidates and issues contributes to the debilitation of our democracy that the United States (including Alabama) is experiencing.
I do not know the extent to which your communications/journalism departments interest themselves in advancing an objective for local Alabama TV stations to carry out journalistically respectable coverage of elections (including what the departments teach students who go on to be employed by Alabama TV stations).
In writing this email and my other emails to you, I am urging for your university/college communications/journalism departments to try to advance the aforesaid objective.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
4/10/22 update
From: Rob Shattuck
To: [email addresses of Professors Davis, Brown, Lewis, Horn and Doerfler]
Cc: [Prof. David Hughes;Professors Nelson, Blankenship, Franks, Carey and Cofield]
Sent: Sun, Apr 10, 2022 10:12 am
Subject: Fwd: Journalistically respectable Alabama TV coverage of 2022 elections
Dear Professors Davis, Brown, Lewis, Horn and Doerfler,
Yesterday I sent the below email to professors at UA, UAB, Auburn, Samford and Montevallo who are in the academic fields of communications and journalism.
My below email concerns how well Alabama TV stations are serving Alabama voters and serving the functioning of democracy in the 2022 elections.
My below email states my conclusion that I believe the TV stations have not provided journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections to date (i.e., have not provided their own commentary to viewers about candidates and issues), and it seems unlikely they will provide such commentary during the critical next 44 days before the May 24th primary.
I don't know whether the professors to whom I sent my below email will agree with my conclusion or whether there is anything they can do to advance an objective for Alabama TV stations to carry out journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections.
I have identified you as professors in the political science departments at UA, UAB, Auburn, Samford and Montevallo, whose biographies indicate your having an academic interest in the working of democracy in the United States. AUM Professor David Hughes has seemed to show an interest in the subject in his tweeting on #alpolitics, and I am copying him on this email for that reason.
I am sending this email (and forwarding the below email to you) for the same purpose as my sending the forwarded email to the addressees of that email, to wit, to present to you my above conclusion about Alabama TV stations not providing journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections to date, to solicit whether you agree with my conclusion, and, if you do, to solicit whether there is anything you can do to advance an objective for Alabama TV stations to carry out journalistically respectable coverage of the 2022 elections.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
[forwarded email is above April 8, 2022 email]
2023 emails with Alabama Broadcasters Association
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> To: Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 06:45:22 PM CDT Subject: Re: Will AL TV stations do anything to counter AI in 2024 elections Thank you again, Sharon. I think you are aware of my goals and that I have also contacted journalism and communications professors in Alabama to try to enlist their support for my goals. I will likely communicate to the professors more. I don't think anything I say further to them will catch you off guard, but, if you want, I will copy you on my emails to the professors. PBS NewsHour has a segment this evening "How the loss of local newspapers fueled political divisions in the U.S." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-loss-of-local-newspapers-fueled-political-divisions-in-the-u-s. One of my goals is for Alabama TV stations to help lessen the partisan political division in the U.S.I am sure you are sympathetic with that goal, but I appreciate you are limited in what you can do. Sincerely, Rob
---------- On Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 08:08:28 AM CDT, Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com> wrote: You do not need to copy me on your communication to stations. Sharon --------- From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 7:08 AM To: Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com> Subject: Re: Will AL TV stations do anything to counter AI in 2024 elections Thank you very much for replying, Sharon. I do have goals I am trying hard to accomplish, and for which I want to be effective. Your comment is duly noted. Do you wish to be copied on any emails I send? Or do you wish to be left off any communications I make? Thanks. Sincerely, Rob Shattuck ----------- On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 11:43:40 PM CDT, Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com> wrote: Feel free to email whomever you please. The ABA does not advise our members on editorial or any other content in the manner you are suggesting. As an aside, threats aren't a very effective way of accomplishing any goal. Sharon M. Tinsley President Alabama Broadcasters Association 2180 Parkway Lake Drive
Hoover, AL 35244 205-982-5001 -------- From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 6:32:42 PM To: Sharon Tinsley <stinsley@al-ba.com> Subject: Re: Will AL TV stations do anything to counter AI in 2024 elections Sharon, If you are not inclined to reply to me, I am inclined to send emails directly to the directors of the Alabama Broadcasters Association. Just thought I would tell you that before I start emailing them. Thank you. Sincerely, Rob Shattuck ---------- On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 06:06:27 PM CDT, Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> wrote: Dear Sharon, Please tell me whether the Alabama Broadcasters Association is giving any consideration to formulating suggestions for its member TV stations about things the stations should consider doing regarding the use of AI in political ads the stations run in the 2024 elections. Thank you. Sincerely, Rob Shattuck (for filing in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/06/al-tv-stations-and-artificial.html)
As I've charged Gov. Ivey w/ moral depravity in her opposition to vaccine mandates, I charge Katie Britt with moral depravity in telling Fauci to stay out of AL. Is Katie Britt Christian enough & woman enough to defend against my charge?https://t.co/qMwG9fESel#alpolitics#alsenhttps://t.co/eTiBoWezj6
Alabama TV reporters: Please contact Mike Durant & have a conversation with him about what he's hearing from people about what’s most important to them. Mike Durant: Please welcome such conversations.https://t.co/6w13Ig1vGS#alpolitics#alsenhttps://t.co/YlGy0vkPhi
Does Mike Durant advocate that Alabama women who get abortions (in or out of state) be criminally guilty of murder? Does he advocate that Alabamians who drive an Alabama friend to another state for an abortion to be criminally liable?https://t.co/6w13Ig1vGS#alpolitics#alsenhttps://t.co/DmaHdJIXJt
I have been badgering you in the extreme about "upping your game" in the 2022 elections.
Election time is when Alabamians are most exposed to having their political thinking affected by TV ads, TV news and the social media..
Alabama being controlled by the Republicans results in a skewing of the political messaging that Alabamians receive, particularly by the TV ads, and the political thinking of Alabamians gets more influenced by the skewed messaging from the Republican side.
TV stations receive a lot of revenue from the skewed messaging of the TV ads the stations run for the candidates.
Alabama TV stations may be indifferent to the skewed political messaging that gets purveyed in the TV ads.
Alternatively, TV stations may believe the skewed political messaging the ads purvey is unfortunate, but that business considerations prevent the stations from doing anything to mitigate the skewed political messaging the stations purvey.
At a minimum it would seem that Alabama TV stations would endeavor to evaluate how "unfortunate" the skewed messaging is for Alabamians in determining the extent to which the stations' business considerations should preclude doing anything to counter the skewed messaging.
Let me give some examples to consider.
A. Vaccine mandates.
Even before the 2022 elections got into swing, Gov. Ivey, AG Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery took strenuous positions and actions against vaccine mandates. Now, with 2022 elections underway, Republican candidates are vehemently campaigning against vaccine mandates. The below ad of Mike Durant is an example.
Alabamians are deluged with anti-mandate ads and other anti-mandate messaging that conveys that citizens are free to make whatever personal decision they want about getting vaccinated, and citizens should not be subjected to any cost or penalty if they choose not to get vaccinated.
Alabamians receive virtually no contra messaging to the effect that, under the social contract of government and the rule of law, citizens may be subjected to a cost or penalty if they choose not to get vaccinated, and government officials are charged with public responsibility and authority to make decisions about whether costs or penalties should be imposed on citizens who choose not to get vaccinated. A number of factors weigh in the making of that decision, and public officials have a duty to evaluate and weigh those factors and reach a decision about what is in the best interest for the health and welfare of Alabamians.
As I set out in Dear Gov. Ivey re controlling COVID and Nonfeasance, malfeasance or moral depravity, I contend that Gov. Ivey, AG Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery failed in their duty to undertake that weighing of the factors and reaching a decision that they concluded was in the best interest of the health and welfare of Alabamians.
Instead, I contend Gov. Ivey, AG Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery reached their decision based on what they determined would be to their personal political advantage, and disregarding what was in the best interest of the health and welfare of Alabamians.
The foregoing is my opinion and what I think.
Those in charge of TV stations should consider the matter and decide what their opinion is and what they think.
If they do not agree with my opinion and with what I think, that is fine. If they disagree, it would be nice to hear an explanation of why they disagree.
They should keep in mind, if my opinion and what I think is correct, that means Gov. Ivey, AG Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery did not act in the best interests of the health and welfare of Alabamians, and Alabamians died or were otherwise harmed in the past, and the same may happen in the future because Alabama officials fail again to make decisions in the best interest of the health and welfare of Alabamians.
Further, the TV stations should keep in mind that the next 66 days will have a high level attention of Alabamians to the candidates' ads and provide a high level of opportunity and capacity to influence the political thinking of Alabamians. These particularly includes inculcating thinking that citizens are free to make whatever personal decision they want about getting vaccinated, and citizens should not be subjected to any cost or penalty if they choose not to get vaccinated.
By the same token, the next 66 days are when TV stations can have a high level of potential to influence the political thinking of Alabamians in a different direction, to wit, citizens should not consider themselves free to make whatever personal decision they want about getting vaccinated, and citizens may legitimately be subjected to a cost or penalty if they choose not to get vaccinated.
If TV stations agree with my opinion and what I think, and TV stations do not try to inform Alabamians of their opinion about a past failure of Alabama officials to make decisions in the best interest of the health and welfare of Alabamians and that such failure may continue in the future, I will leave it to the TV stations to wrestle with their journalistic consciences about the matter.
B. Other examples
The theme of this is that election time is when Alabamians are most exposed to having their political thinking affected by TV ads, TV news and the social media; election time is when TV stations should evaluate how "unfortunate" (or not) how the political thinking of Alabamians is being affected by the TV ads and the social media; election time is when TV stations have special opportunity and capacity to influence the political thinking in another direction if the TV stations determine that would be beneficial for the politics and governance of Alabama; that election time right now is the next 66 days and if Alabama TV stations don't focus on this during the next 66 days, the remainder of the time until election day on November 8th, will afford too little and too late for the TV stations. After November 8th the TV stations will be reduced to "nada" during 2023.
With the examples indicated below, please (i) think about the messaging that is being done by the TV ads on the issue in question, (ii) as to the issue involved, evaluate the importance to Alabamians of something different from the status quo, and (iii) think about whether the messaging makes the "solving" of the problem harder because it hardens the political thinking of Alabamians about the issue in an unhelpful way, and whether alternative messaging would be helpful.
1. Critical race theory, etc. [added 3/21/22] Here is Kay Ivey's “Today, the left teaches kids to hate America" video.
The TV stations know how much the Kay Ivey campaign pays them to run the ad.
The ad is connected to the difficult tangle regarding critical race theory, "divisive concepts", and Social Emotional Learning. This tangle interferes with the carrying out of education in Alabama, and the tangle needs working through to lessen or eliminate its interference with carrying out education.
The TV stations can judge how the video affects the thinking of viewers, how it contributes to political polarization and impairment of understanding and communication, and whether, ultimately, the ad is unhelpful to the working through of the aforesaid tangle regarding critical race theory, "divisive concepts", and Social Emotional Learning.
The TV stations can decide whether they think it would be helpful to interview Kay Ivey to discuss how she thinks Alabamians can best work through the aforesaid tangle regarding critical race theory, "divisive concepts", and Social Emotional Learning. If Kay Ivey declines such an interview, the TV stations have the option editorialize on the matter for the benefit of their viewers and ultimately for the benefit of Alabama.
