For those worried about the rise of propaganda in America, this is a troubling development.
By Nicole Hemmer
This April, a reporter for a Sinclair-owned TV station revealed that she was fired
for refusing to add conservative talking-points to a climate change
story. This followed weeks of controversy, including revelations that
the media giant had forced local news anchors to read identical scripts denouncing, in Trump-like fashion, “fake” news.
More recently, in a speech this May, Hillary Clinton specifically called out Sinclair (alongside Fox News) for "delivering propaganda."
Sinclair
Broadcasting Group, the largest owner of local television stations in
America, is still not a household name like, for example, Fox News. Yet
it may be the truest heir to former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger
Ailes’s original vision of conservative news programming.
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Source: NBC News
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