This is another reason Hillary and other Democratic Candidates lose in Positive Media Coverage
I Quit Working For Sinclair And They Sued Me. Here’s Why I’m Fighting Back.
I quit my job at a television station owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, and I am fighting the company in court for trying to claw back $5,700.
My stint was less than one year at the local CBS affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, where I went to work as a general assignment reporter in August 2014. At the time, I had never heard of Sinclair Broadcasting.
Over the years, they’ve become the largest television station operator in the U.S. by number of stations, and the largest by total coverage, owning or operating a total of 193 stations in more than 80 markets. Those stations reach around 38 percent of American households. The media conglomerate is seeking the OK from the Trump administration to buy Tribune Media Co., which would spread the company’s scripted messages even further.
At WPEC, the team faced more than the usual midsize TV market problems. During my time in the CBS12 newsroom, I learned complaints to HR at the local and national levels were not only discouraged, but a quick route to termination. Management expressed a keen interest in keeping heads down and simply doing your job.
As reporters and anchors at the company, we were routinely told to follow leads and angles with a clear-cut conservative agenda. At CBS12, I was ordered to do man-on-the-street interviews that were clearly politically biased. I’d ask loaded questions like, “How much do you disagree with Obama this year?” It was disguised as real journalism. The funny thing is, I’m a Republican ― and I was still pissed by it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jonathan-beaton-sinclair-suing_us_5ac60f6fe4b09ef3b2441237
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