The First to Quit Sinclair

Justin Simmons was working at Sinclair owned KHGI in Nebraska. 

Simmons said that he finally had enough and on March 26th he turned in his resignation. He said that the script that Sinclair forced anchors to read was the last straw. 

"This is almost forcing local news anchors to lie to their viewers," he said.

In his resignation letter, Simmons wrote that he has been required to air "several segments that have made me uncomfortable." He cited "the news media bashing promo our local anchors have been required to read" as the most recent example.

He also was not comfortable running the "must run" segments featuring Boris "Mouth Full of Bees" Epshteyn. He says that a number of times he would not run the segments and that his boss got in trouble for it. 

Simmons might be the first to quit Sinclair, but we're fairly certain he won't be the last. 

H/T CNN

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