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I don't remember anybody whining for Congressional action or filing a complaint with the FEC, though.
While you're at it, be sure to boycott Sundance, who is airing a special do entary on the Vote For Change Concert Tour. Then there's the national 24-hour news networks, all of which will have partisan guests on their programs during the next week to analyse the Presidential campaigns.
And hopefully you are still honoring your boycott of all of the networks that carried Ross Perot's TV specials in 1992 and 1996.
Because why decide for yourself what you watch on television when boycotting is such a great way of controlling what everybody watches?
I don't remember anybody whining for Congressional action or filing a complaint with the FEC, though.
Do you think a group of Vets have no rights? They have as much, if not
more rights to air their view as Kerry and his ilk. They are the ones he
labled as baby killers and criminals. Or do you deny that also.
The FCC has taken a reasonable but hard stand agaisnt Sinclare...
FCC COMMISSIONER STATEMENT ON SINCLAIR AIRING OF ANTI-KERRY SHOW
Tue Oct 12 2004 13:39:02 ET
FCC COMMISSIONER COPPS CRITICIZES SINCLAIR CORPORATE DECISION TO PREEMPT LOCAL STATIONS FOR POLITICAL BROADCAST
Commissioner Michael J. Copps reacted to reports that Sinclair Broadcast Group will preempt more than 60 local stations across the country to air an overtly political program in the days prior to the Presidential election.
Copps stated: “This is an abuse of the public trust. And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative. Some will undoubtedly question if this is appropriate stewardship of the public airwaves. This is the same corporation that refused to air Nightline’s reading of our war dead in Iraq. It is the same corporation that short-shrifts local communities and local jobs by distance-casting news and weather from hundreds of miles away. It is a sad fact that the explicit public interest protections we once had to ensure balance continue to be weakened by the Federal Communications Commission while it allows media conglomerates to get even bigger. Sinclair, and the FCC, are taking us down a dangerous road.”
The payoff for Sinclair broadcasting for participating in Karl Rove's evil doing?
10/12/2004
Subsidiary of network airing anti-Kerry film awarded ‘war on terror’ contract
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Latest at RAW STORY: GOP congressional candidate threatened to shoot wife, according to divorce records
By John Steinberg | Special to RAW STORY
Sinclair Broadcasting Group, under fire for ordering its 62 networks to broadcast a film sharply critical of John Kerry’s opposition to the Vietnam War, is a major investor in a company recently awarded a military contract by the Bush Administration, RAW STORY has learned.
Jadoo Power Systems, Inc., a producer of portable power systems, announced Sept. 28 that it had been awarded a contract to supply its products, which are used for covert surveillance operations, to US Special Operations Command. According to the SOCOM website, SOCOM “plans, directs, and executes special operations in the conduct of the War on Terrorism.”
Jadoo, whose name in Hindi means “magic,” is owned by Sinclair Ventures, Inc. and Contango Capital Management. Sinclair Ventures is “a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. as well as other individuals.”
A Jadoo press release (in PDF format) reveals that in February, 2003, President Bush was personally briefed by the CEO of Jadoo, Larry Bawden, about Jadoo products.
According to Fortune Magazine, Jadoo has sold its fuel cells to Boeing; government agencies like the CIA, the Secret Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and the U.S. Army.
For the 2004 election, Sinclair executives have donated nearly $59,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign or the Republican National Committee (RNC), including a $50,000 gift to the RNC from Sinclair Vice President Fred Smith.
Sinclair Broadcasting (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced this week that it intends to air an anti-Kerry film on all of its 62 television stations, many of which are in battleground states. The film, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, claims that Kerry’s anti-war activities undermined morale of POWs then held in Vietnam.
Sinclair received national attention earlier this year when it preempted the April 30th Nightline television program on which host Ted Koppel read the names of the 523 American soldiers killed in Iraq up to that date.
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Funny how an anti-Bush cinematic screed is a must see in this forum but an anti-Kerry one is grounds for a federal case.
Go figure.
And yes, I understand the technical differences between the two situations.
Ah-er......as usual you got it wrong. One commissioner has taken a stand
and made a statement, not the FCC, dummy....
It was the Demoncrat appointed er.Ah-er......as usual you got it wrong. One commissioner has taken a stand
and made a statement, not the FCC, dummy....
Cry me a river Dan and go hold Michael Moore's ..err hand!
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