Sinclair Broadcast Group is under fire once again, this time for a local-broadcast “must run” segment that tries to claim the government’s brutal immigration and child-separation policies are little more than a giant misunderstanding caused by the journalists covering the story.
The segment is part of an ongoing effort by the company to sow distrust in media outlets and convince the public that any and all negative coverage of terrible government policies is politically-motivated and cannot be trusted.
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Giant corporations have been pushing to weaken this cap for years, and Sinclair has repeatedly petitioned the FCC to have the cap lifted entirely. The goal: to elbow out contrasting viewpoints and smaller news organizations, resulting in a troubling homogenization of local news reporting that can often teeter somewhere between comedy and dystopia.
Sinclair’s aggressively misleading “must run“ segments continue to highlight the real dangers in letting any one company dominate the local broadcast landscape, and the rampant corruption resulting in the slow, steady erosion of rules specifically designed to prevent that from happening.
Source: Sinclair’s Immigration Propaganda Foreshadows the Perils of Media Merger Mania | VICE