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Sinclair Broadcast Group is working on a streaming news service that could launch later this year, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday. The company has submitted a trademark application for a free streaming app, called STIRR, BuzzFeed reported. Sources familiar with the project told the news outlet that the app would offer local and national news, as well as other on-demand programming. A spokesperson for Sinclair declined to comment to BuzzFeed. The app would represent the latest effort from Sinclair to expand its reach.

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We report, you get it wrong By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday. And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). Based on several nationwide surveys it conducted with California-based Knowledge Networks since June,...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is getting massive media treatment. People wearing respiratory masks grace this week’s covers of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News. With the war in Iraq thankfully close to being over, and the Beltway snipers, Chandra Levy and Elizabeth Smart stories pretty much played out, it’s been lean times for the news outlets. They’re still squeezing out what they can from the murder of Laci Peterson, but with the suspect apprehended there’s just not that much to talk about. Speculation about Laci’s husband’s dye job and other minutia is only good for a couple of hours a...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU DEC 05, 2002 15:25:07 ET XXXXX MSNBC RATINGS HIT BOTTOM; NETWORK FLATLINING The joint news operation between GENERAL ELECTRIC and MICROSOFT has moved in to critical condition -- with audience levels of MSNBC fading to near unmeasurable readings, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! Overnight NIELSEN returns for Wednesday night show MSNBC setting near all-time low viewership for the all-news channel. MORE Both DONAHUE and HARDBALL W/CHRIS MATTHEWS are rated at the bottom of all cable news programming for Wednesday prime. With cold weather now firmly implanted over much of the nation, and television watching seasonally...