You're right about "mega conglomerate" I suppose, but they're pretty frikkin big.
To me, overreaction to a mission statement is stupid. I wonder what the reaction would have been if ABC or CBS or NBC or PBS had it's on-air personalities read this very same statement. Or if the NY Times or the Washington Post had published this statement.
Maybe someone who's objecting to it should compare the Sinclair handling of news stories vs. any other news narrative they want to use as a "standard". And, yes, I see the hypocrisy of naming a "standard" by which someone should measure Sinclair's affiliates.