Sinclair Broadcasting targets LGBTQ student focused conference and gets it cancelled

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/right-wing-broadcaster-targets-decades-old-lgbtq-school-conference-gets-it-canceled/ar-BB1kyIPV

Under the provocative franchise banner “Crisis in the Classroom,” right-wing local news giant Sinclair Broadcasting in January targeted a decades-old conference dedicated to addressing the needs of LGBTQ+ students and the faculty and school staff that educate them in private schools.-

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The AIMS “Belonging in Gender and Sexual Identity” conference has been held annually for 25 years and was scheduled for mid-February at the St. Paul’s School for Boys in Baltimore County.

Sinclair published the story without comment from AIMS or any of the group’s affiliated schools. Instead, they let Angela Morabito, spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute and press secretary for the Department of Education just before President Joe Biden entered the White House, explain why the AIMS conference is harmful to children.

“When you’ve got a conference at a school that’s teaching participants how to circumvent parents or how to tell parents they’re wrong about their own kids, you know that school is not putting students and families first,” Morabito told Sinclair’s Crisis in the Classroom reporter.

Speaking of parents, she added, “They are partners in learning, they are not opponents of learning.”

The former Heritage Foundation fellow and Fox News contributor said the AIMS conference aligns with a national trend of misplaced priorities where students are not being taught to be “productive members of society.”

AIMS executive director Peter Baily told the Baltimore Banner that angry emails, phone calls, and social media commentary soon followed and were amplified a few days later after Project Veritas, known for undercover “sting” operations on liberal targets, took Sinclair’s lead and published a photo of a questionnaire it said was distributed to a fifth-grade class at St. Paul’s.

[William Seger]

1. I'd bet that mean-spirited bigot wears a diamond-studded cross and calls herself a Christian

[70sEraVet]

2. I guess Sinclair Broadcasting is not satisfied with controlling most of the news..

programming that comes into our homes.

the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households) and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW

A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market."[5][6] The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group