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Sinclair Broadcast Group 'False News' Promos Stir Debate About Media Bias
ResumeThe country's biggest owner of local television stations is under fire for making its news anchors read a scripted promo decrying "false news" and echoing conservative rhetoric about bias in the media. A compilation of anchors at stations owned or operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group went viral over the weekend, and President Trump weighed in Monday morning on Twitter.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd discusses the controversy with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson (@DKThomp).
This segment aired on April 2, 2018.