Zachary Pleat | Media Matters for America

Zachary Pleat is a senior researcher at Media Matters, where he has worked since January 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of South Florida.

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Sinclair's horrible COVID-19 coverage has glossed over the HEROES Act for months

12/10/20 11:29 AM EST
Georgia's TV news stations virtually ignore new reporting on Sen. David Perdue's stock trading scandal

12/01/20 4:49 PM EST
Sinclair is about to air Steve Bannon peddling a discredited voting fraud theory to millions of local TV viewers

11/20/20 2:10 PM EST
Sinclair host floats conspiracy theory about Pfizer vaccine news, suggests congressional investigation

11/17/20 3:37 PM EST
Sinclair's national news desk is helping Trump undermine the election results in Nevada

11/09/20 5:06 PM EST
Sinclair Broadcast Group spreads debunked Project Veritas disinformation about Michigan ballots

11/06/20 2:00 PM EST
Some Twin Cities news stations didn't explain how a new court decision could invalidate viewers' mail-in ballots

11/02/20 5:43 PM EST
Local North Carolina broadcast news is not covering Republican candidate Madison Cawthorn’s extremism

10/31/20 11:05 AM EDT
Rudy Giuliani on Twitter’s Jack Dorsey: “Put him in jail” over handling of Hunter Biden story

10/29/20 12:02 PM EDT
Sinclair is spreading the Trump campaign’s last-ditch Hunter Biden attack to local news stations around the country

10/29/20 8:23 AM EDT
Sinclair national reporters have repeatedly pushed right-wing lies about supposed social media platform bias

10/27/20 4:47 PM EDT
Local news stations' Facebook pages downplayed coronavirus concerns at recent Trump rallies

10/26/20 7:17 AM EDT