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An Orlando resident and former Sinclair employee is being sued by the company for quitting
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/04/03/a-former-sinclair-employee-in-florida-is-being-sued-by-the-company-for-quitting“So after a year [at WPEC] I’d had enough and asked to be released from my contract, which is not uncommon in TV news markets,” Beaton, who previously worked at Sinclair station WPEC News 12 in West Palm Beach, tells Orlando Weekly.
Beaton says that the company told him he had to pay around $25,000 to get out of the contract, even though he was only making roughly $44,000 a year.
Beaton says that the company told him he had to pay around $25,000 to get out of the contract, even though he was only making roughly $44,000 a year.
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“So that was clearly something I couldn’t do,” he says.
In 2015, after leaving the TV news station, Beaton moved back to Orlando and opened up his own public relations firm. But just before the statute of limitations had run out, on Oct. 13, the company sued Beaton in Orange County courts, requesting $5,700 in damages and other related costs, according to a copy of the complaint filed in state court.
Beaton, who was a reporter, also says the company guided its newsrooms' work toward a conservative point of view while he was working with WPEC. He compares the slant to ultra-conservative publications like the Blaze and the Daily Wire.
“It was more than just the questions,” he says. “It was the stories that we were told to do; they had to have a religious tie-in. We couldn't do stories, for the most part, that involved the LGBTQ community. Basically, there were a set of parameters and we had to stick to them.”
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“I would go so far as to say that if it weren’t for Sinclair Broadcasting, Donald Trump would not be in the Oval Office right now,” Beaton says. “When you realize the sort of propaganda they’re pumping out there, you realize how scary this is.”
“So that was clearly something I couldn’t do,” he says.
In 2015, after leaving the TV news station, Beaton moved back to Orlando and opened up his own public relations firm. But just before the statute of limitations had run out, on Oct. 13, the company sued Beaton in Orange County courts, requesting $5,700 in damages and other related costs, according to a copy of the complaint filed in state court.
Beaton, who was a reporter, also says the company guided its newsrooms' work toward a conservative point of view while he was working with WPEC. He compares the slant to ultra-conservative publications like the Blaze and the Daily Wire.
“It was more than just the questions,” he says. “It was the stories that we were told to do; they had to have a religious tie-in. We couldn't do stories, for the most part, that involved the LGBTQ community. Basically, there were a set of parameters and we had to stick to them.”
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“I would go so far as to say that if it weren’t for Sinclair Broadcasting, Donald Trump would not be in the Oval Office right now,” Beaton says. “When you realize the sort of propaganda they’re pumping out there, you realize how scary this is.”
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