Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse

News Bulletin: Sinclair Broadcasting Corp., the nation’s largest owner of local TV stations, is requiring its news anchors to take part in a new promotional campaign that slams national media outlets for sharing “fake stories.” The script reads, in part:

“The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, national media outlets are publishing these same fake stories without checking facts first.

“Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think.’ . . . This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”

—Brandon Carter, reporter, “Sinclair requiring anchors to read new promo slamming ‘one-sided news stories’: report,” The Hill, March 7, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: “I felt like a POW recording a message,” one Sinclair news anchor told CNN.

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