An example of Sinclair Broadcast Group, this from the St Louis area viewers.
https://www.mediamatters.org/resear...nspiracy-theories-wannabe-sean-hannity/218076
Exert from the article; there's more links to this vile cretin's past rhetoric, including pushing conspiracies.
---Beginning in 2015, the Sinclair-owned KDNL, an ABC-affiliated station branded as ABC 30, switched from broadcasting typical local news reports to instead offering its viewers three airings per day of
The Allman Report. Billed as a “
non-traditional newscast,” the 30-minute program
airs during weekday time slots typically reserved for a local newscast: 6:30 a.m. leading into
Good Morning America, 5 p.m leading into
ABC World News Tonight, and 10 p.m. (
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last week that as part of Sinclair's proposed expansion, the company "disclosed its plans to expand morning and evening newscasts in St. Louis at 4:30 a.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., in a regulatory filing Thursday but didn’t say on what station.")
The Allman Report is hosted by Jamie Allman, a
local conservative radio host. Allman’s TV show closely mimics the playbook for a classic Fox News evening commentary program. It touts a “
debate-driven” and guest-heavy format and focuses on bread-and-butter conservative topics. Allman often delivers monologues that mirror former Fox host and current monster Bill O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memo” or any of the
unhinged commentaries Sean Hannity unleashes upon his audience nightly.
KDNL leadership
admitted that the show would have a “conservative” bent when announcing its debut. But Allman’s extreme far-right rhetoric and fringe conspiracy theories go far beyond conservative spin. For
years before Sinclair opted to give him a city-wide platform, Allman pushed numerous far-right conspiracy theories on his KTFK talk radio show,
Allman in the Morning, which he continues to host regularly. He also employs patently offensive rhetoric targeted specifically at women, people of color, and immigrants on air and in social media. And yet, Sinclair has only magnified and legitimized his voice, as well as those of the extreme guests he favors.---