Kearney man in the spotlight after quitting his Sinclair TV job in protest

[Omaha Steve]

Justin Simmons

By Erin Grace

A 24-year-old Kearney man became a hero to some this week after taking his why-I-quit-my-Sinclair-TV-job story to CNN amid a firestorm around the broadcast giant’s mandated promos on “fake news.”

Justin Simmons played David to Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Goliath, symbolizing a small voice — from Trump country, no less — taking a big stand to say: This is wrong.

But this David, given his own political activism, may not be the best voice of moral authority on the issue of bias.

Sinclair is under fire after the website Deadspin published a montage of broadcasters at Sinclair-owned TV stations around the country talking about the risk of “false news.” Reading from the same script, they said “we’re concerned” about: “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories”; the sharing of these “fake stories” on social media; and that other media “use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda.”

FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/columnists/plus/grace-kearney-man-in-the-spotlight-after-quitting-his-sinclair/article_9d7fe18d-b327-5a11-89da-a321058fb231.html

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1. Full story is behind a "give us all your informations" screen

So I didn't get to see what horrible crimes of political activism Justin Simmons has committed, and how that invalidates his statement that Sinclair's practices are wrong.

[WhiteTara]

2. Thanks for making the effort for me

His sin is that he is probably a Democrat and knows what propaganda is.