Sinclair is now airing straight-up coronavirus conspiracy theorists (of "Plandemic" notoriety) across the country. A point of discussion was whether Fauci created covid himself. Unspeakably irresponsible. More via @mmfa @zpleat here: mediamatters.org/sinclair-broad… @mmfa @zpleat Right now, this program streams on local Sinclair stations' websites. It airs on the actual stations on weekends. @zpleat will have the data on where it aired by early next week. You can find Sinclair stations near you at FindSinclair.com

1) I watched 200+ of Sinclair's "Terrorism Alert Desk" segments and here's what I know: Sinclair wants local news consumers to be perpetually, irrationally terrified of constant terror attacks by Muslims. Period. mm4a.org/Z75 2) Across the country, Sinclair stations are sandwiching alarmist, xenophobic bullshit in between local weather and high school sports, creating a constant drumbeat of vague fear. They use tactics like:

We know that people continue to trust their local news more than other sources to tell them the truth. That's why this year's decimation of the local news landscape is so terrifying (1):

mediamatters.org/blog/2017/12/2… Right-wing local news giant Sinclair started mandating its stations across the country to air Trump propaganda from a dude who used to work for Trump and was just partying at Trump Hotel like, last week (2) :

mediamatters.org/blog/2017/12/1…