[jsgo]

Torn here. On the one hand, I hate the "must run" items, yet on the other hand, I see this as being a slippery slope if they were to punish as that'd be dictating to a company what is allowed on their stations.

Having said that, two things:

1) I'm glad it was exposed and wish it were highlighted more than it was. This gives viewers the ability to discern how valuable they find the content to know that scripts were dictated to their newspeople.

2) I'm hoping, though doubtful, that this prevents Sinclair from buying up other small market stations as they've shown their hand as to what they'd do with a monopoly.

[mrguyorama]

The problem here that I see is one of "false advertising" If you present yourself as "News", that has certain connotations. Publishing this forced run content without disclaiming that it is not independently sourced journalism IMO violates those connotations

[pnw_hazor]

All news is subject to editors/publishers making decisions about what is included, excluded, omitted, broadcast-ed, etc., for political or commercial reasons.

It has always been this way.

[maxxxxx]

I am opposed to punishing Sinclair. In my view it comes down to that we should discourage the creation of large companies in general. They just get too much power no matter what industry.