Lest we be tempted to applaud the Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s Friday decision to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air in cities like Seattle and St. Louis and Tulsa and Birmingham and Little Rock and Roanoke and Washington D.C. — thus lifting its blackout at 38 ABC affiliates — it behooves us to remember this company’s “news” operation is a font of right-wing disinformation in service to the MAGA mission.

I’ve been writing about Sinclair on and off since 2018, fascinated as I am with its confluence of capitalism and authoritarianism. Sometimes its MAGA messaging has all the subtlety of a military jackboot marching across one’s skull. Sometimes — as we just saw the other day, on a story of serious national import — Sinclair simply lies by omission, secure in its quest to keep millions of Am

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