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To: The Virginia State House, The Virginia State Senate, Governor Ralph Northam, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
BREAK UP SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP
Sinclair Broadcast Group has a virtual monopoly on America's news media and is polarizing the political landscape in this arena, which defeats the whole bedrock of a Democratic society. Allowing for a difference of viewpoint is what Democracy is all about and permitting a one-sided political media monopoly aggressively suppresses rightful voices of opposition and in so doing destroys Democracy itself.
Why is this important?
This petition is to demand that Congress take action against Sinclair Broadcast Group becasue of its politically polarizing monopoly on American news media, thereby suppressing voices of opposition - which is a deliberate undermining of Democracy and a free thinking society. Different viewpoints are essential to a healthy democratic society and are representative to various degrees of the current state of mind of the people in their respective municipalities, locales, districts, and states. When one or two (or a few) industrial bodies gain a monopoly, Democracy in said arena is dead and the conversation officially beomes one-sided in order to increase that body's profit margin. This is not freedom. In the case of Sinclair, it is brainwashing, and thereby enslavement of the audience through a continuous chain of misinformation, advertisements, and a directional politically-oriented agenda. Sinclair Broadcast Group must be broken up and scattered into the wind, never to return, in order to begin restoring the foundation of our Democracy along with the integrity of our news media.