While most reputable news outlets are refraining the whistleblower, the Sinclair stations are not.

Media Matters writes that several Sinclair-operated local news stations first aired the purported name of the whistleblower in an October 31 news package from investigative reporter James Rosen. (And other stations posted the segment to their websites.) Rosen’s sourcing for the identity was thin; he said a White House staffer told him that the person named “is considered by Trump loyalists in national security circles to be the likeliest candidate to be the whistleblower.” His report showed the purported whistleblower attending an event and highlighted their face.

Rosen later appeared on the November 6 edition of the national Sinclair program America This Week and detailed his attempts to contact the whistleblower. Rosen hyped the fact that his October 31 segment “was the first story to put moving footage of” the alleged whistleblower “on television.” He also attempted to portray the person he named as the whistleblower as biased, saying that “he was hostile to President Trump” while adding that “I think we're going to be hearing more about this individual.” The segment also featured a chyron naming the alleged whistleblower on screen.

You have to wonder if it was a Democrat in the White House, would Sinclair have done the same story?

I’m going to guess that is a no.