Sinclair it's okay, you can admit it.

[A Black Falcon]

I'd say that Sinclair wants people to know things... right-wing things, about how awful and scary everything which isn't American and conservative is. It's a warped and awful message, but as I said, what Sinclair corporate forces on their stations, and the quality of the local journalism done by those channels, are, I would say, still largely unrelated. I still think that WGME, my local Sinclair station, is a good news station which reports the local news fairly. And that's why I see this as being so dangerous, because Sinclair is misusing that trust to try to get the public to believe their right-wing lies. Deadspin's done a fantastic job here.

It is kind of an irony, really, thinking about it now -- you're right, the ideal populace to the right is a minimally-educated one... but these stations spend many hours a day reporting the news. That increases popular knowledge in a way at least somewhat counter to Sinclair's aims, I would think... of course so long as people support Republicans anyway they're probably fine with that, but as we've seen consistently in special elections for the past year, people aren't doing that because enough of them are rethinking things in the face of this insanely criminal administration. Maybe Sinclair is helping to defeat itself?