Comedian and actress Amy Schumer has cancelled an upcoming interview with Arlington-basted TV station WJLA over the Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision to force anchors around the country to read from scripts condemning "fake news."

BuzzFeed News reports that representatives for Schumer confirmed she has cancelled the interview, meant as part of a press tour for her movie "I Feel Pretty. The actress, a cousin of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Chuck SchumerJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee CNN's Toobin: Democrats are 'wimps' who won't 'have the guts' to add Supreme Court seats Republican senator says plans to confirm justice before election 'completely consistent with the precedent' MORE (D-N.Y.), reportedly hopes to avoid working with Sinclair affiliates in the future.

Spokespeople for Sinclair and WJLA did not respond to BuzzFeed's request for comment.

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Schumer's decision comes after a viral Deadspin video showed dozens of anchors and reporters at Sinclair stations around the country reading the script attacking "fake news" in unison, which many journalists and other critics on social media derided as sinister and "Orwellian."

"News anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism," former CBS News anchor Dan Rather tweeted.

"It's propaganda. It's Orwellian. A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses."

At least one producer at a Sinclair station resigned in protest over the promos, while other journalists at the company criticized the scripts in anonymous comments to news outlets.

Executives at Sinclair have defended the right-leaning news company's decision to air promos slamming national news outlets for false reporting, remarking that it was "ironic" that Sinclair would be criticized for promoting integrity.

"It is ironic that we would be attacked for messages promoting our journalistic initiative for fair and objective reporting, and for specifically asking the public to hold our newsrooms accountable," Sinclair executive Scott Livingstone said on Monday.