LTE: Sinclair plants flag

Regarding “Separating the fake from the real news” (Page A17, Thursday Outlook) columnist Kathleen Parker sounds the alarms about the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group having its “193 local television stations read an identical script on the air denouncing other traditional news organizations as producers of ‘fake news.’ ”

Parker is right to view Sinclair as a threat, but they are not a threat to free speech, as she suggests. They are a threat to the comfortable monopoly that the liberal, mainstream media has had for decades. She better get used to the idea that she operates in a marketplace instead of crying “the sky is falling” just because some competition shows up.

Pete Smith, Cypress