CNN put this out to smear Sinclair Broadcasting Group, a Conservative media outfit that owns many local affiliate stations. SBG saw the looming threat to their free speech and ordered a statement be read by all their affiliates. "Project Mockingbird" takes the form of press kits the MSM (not the local affiliates) are told to run with; totally unrelated.
CNN put this out to smear Sinclair Broadcasting Group, a Conservative media outfit that owns many local affiliate stations. SBG saw the looming threat to their free speech and ordered a statement be read by all their affiliates. "Project Mockingbird" takes the form of press kits the MSM (not the local affiliates) are told to run with; totally unrelated.