As Broadcast Companies Like Sinclair Get Bigger, 'We Keep Losing Editorial Voices'

Sinclair's $3.9 billion bid for Tribune is still under FCC review

The corporate-mandated “fake stories” promo that recently aired across most of Sinclair Broadcasting’s 193 stations has sparked a conversation about what an increasingly consolidated news media means for the viewer—perhaps nowhere more so than within Sinclair-owned newsrooms, like KSNV (NBC) in Las Vegas.

“We haven’t talked about journalism like this in a long time,” said Mark Neerman, News Director of KSNV and Regional News Director for Sinclair.

Neerman says that, when he got a copy of the promo from Sinclair corporate, he called in his news anchors, who would be its voice in the Las Vegas market.

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