Every presidential election since that era has featured at least one controversy involving Sinclair’s open support for the Republican nominee. mediamatters.org/sinclair-broad…
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1318555445787828224
2004: Sinclair ordered stations to pre-empt regular programming and broadcast a documentary that smeared Kerry's war record(under pressure they backed off and aired a special featuring portions of the documentary instead).
2008: Sinclair aired a conservative group’s swing state advertisement linking Obama to Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers. CNN and Fox News had both declined to run the ad.
2012: Swing state Sinclair stations ran an election special that predominantly smeared Obama.
2016: Sinclair reportedly agreed to broadcast its “Trump interviews across the country without commentary” using its “television stations across the country in many swing states” in a deal with the Trump campaign for more access.
And now Sinclair is doing a pre-election town hall with Trump hosted by a notorious pro-Trump propagandist.
As Judd notes, Sinclair is particularly malignant because, unlike Fox News, its content is beamed through trusted local news stations.
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1318556416492404736
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