Competition for Fox

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Now your local station  could be spewing the same stuff as FOX: 

America's gonna be an interesting place in the near future.   Sinclair has a stations across America...  

Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus.

www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html


Here's when Sinclair first tested the water: 

www.businessinsider.com/sinclair-broadcast-group-stations-by-state-list-2018-4

Sinclair Broadcast Group came under scrutiny over the weekend after a clip of news anchors reading a required script about "false news" went viral.

Some worried the mandated segment undermined the news organizations, while others — including President Donald Trump — defended Sinclair.

Sinclair runs dozens of stations; here is a list by state.

Fox is kind of bombastic in it's reporting of the news.  And FOX isn't really a "News" station - it's "entertainment".       The other Sinclair stations tend to be more "local" and with a serious approach to reporting the "news"  -- what happens when the accepted "authority" of ones local news team is reporting this kind of stuff as actual news and NOT as entertainment??

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Sinclair is temporarily pulling the show.

Sinclair pulls show where Fauci conspiracy theory is aired

NEW YORK (AP) — The Sinclair Broadcast Group said Saturday it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus.

Sinclair spokesman Michael Padovano said Sinclair hopes to add context and other viewpoints and still air the controversial segment on the next week's edition of “America This Week."

Meanwhile, Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, talked in detail in a new podcast about the “serious threats” and hate mail directed his way.

“America This Week” is hosted by Eric Bolling, a former Fox News Channel personality, and sent to stations Sinclair owns in 81 markets. The show it initially distributed for this weekend's show featured an interview with Judy Mikovits, maker of the widely discredited “Plandemic” video, and her lawyer, Larry Klayman.

Mikovits, an anti-vaccine activist, said she believed that Fauci manufactured the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and shipped it to China. There has been no evidence that the virus was produced in a lab, much less any of Fauci's involvement.

Bolling did not push back on the claim, or show any evidence of checking its veracity. He followed up with a segment interviewing radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor, who said she thought Fauci “in no way, shape or form has been involved in the manufacture of this virus.”

Rest of article here: Sinclair pulls show where Fauci conspiracy theory is aired

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Sinclair spokesman Michael Padovano said Sinclair hopes to add context and other viewpoints

Are they going to add a laugh track?

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Every time you think things cannot sink to a new low, someone scrapes a new bottom of another barrel. This is why aliens have stopped visiting planet Earth. They've seen this mess and they're just not going to get involved.