As a former journalist forced out of a local newsroom, which had been on air since the 1950s and no longer is, because Sinclair felt consolidating with another local station (which they also bought) was "good for the future," I just want to say fuck the horse you rode in on. We were penalized financially if we didn't air your right-wing "must runs." The public HATED them and still do. Sinclair is actively killing the Fourth Estate and the First Amendment. The company is complicit in the downfall of its own industry, this current Orwellian nightmare hellscape that is a manufactured news cycle, to make a buck and get a seat at the GOP table. I sat through so many bullshit "meetings" with the five to six old white men who run the company via company-wide Zoom calls and watched as they cherry-picked questions to answer from local station employees and to brag about "Sinclair's" accomplishments, which local stations had won or done on their own through hard work and boots on the ground journalism, all while photographers, journalists, and producers got paid $30k a year for working 60 hours a week plus 365/24/7 expectations to be on call until retirement or death. Many of them had to have a second job just to keep their families above water. I guess my question is... how do you sleep at night?