[IAmEveryone]

Do you really believe Sinclair doesn't have the manpower to watch their own programming to check for any 'biases'?

And if you believe they are somehow incapable of noticing biases: how would they adjudicate any complaints they get?

That request for comments is either a McGuffin needed to have a reason for the preceding rant slamming all other media outlets.

Or it's a ploy to get local stations in line with Sinclair's corporate agenda, by asking their viewers to rat them out to headquarters.

[makomk]

How would that even work? Like, sure they could watch their own programming, but the people watching it would come from essentially the same pool of people, with the same set of shared biases, as those who chose to run the story that way in the first place.

[downandout]

Umm...wut? Would you not agree that bias is in the media is a major issue today, and that it may cause a significant percentage of viewers to abandon a given station or website if they see too much of it? Before the 2016 election, I regularly watched CNN and visited its website. Now it’s such a den of partiality and clickbait headlines that I have relegated it to HuffPo status and cannot trust anything I read there, so I simply don’t go there. I’d imagine there are others that feel this way too.

So if I’m a media company and I see complaints about my stations or a decline in news viewership, I’m going to take steps to stop it from happening. Companies often don’t know that they have problems until customers express their opinions about them, and so Sinclair is trying to keep an open dialogue with their viewers. Since when is asking customers how they feel about your service a bad thing?

[IAmEveryone]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance

[downandout]

So you’re saying that media is not biased, that in fact all of the people saying that there is a bias are trying to portray a “false balance”? Have you looked at the CNN homepage recently? If you u don’t see bias there, there’s no point in continuing to discuss this with you.