Sinclair Stations to boycott NightLine Tribute to Fallen Soldiers

[bpyatt]

Their top executives have donated more then 130,000 to Bush. They also refused to air the C. Rice testimoney. In 2003 there was an article posted that said they were losing money because of the war. Which is probably their cover. I guess if it's out of sight out of mind. I mean this is ridiculous, are they going to start boycotting Kerry ads? Did they boycott the Lewinsky stuff cuz it wasn't profittable? We're not far from state run television at this point.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=597&e=1&u=/nm/20040430/tv_nm/media_nightline_dc

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Fascism

Pure, simple and overt Fascism. There's no other way to defend this action in a "democracy".

[bpyatt]

2. I was digging deeper and...

Found a few more articles

http://www.tvbarn.com/archives/009638.html


They are trying to centralize news for their right wing agenda.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Great piece! I'm sending it on to the FCC

It will probably go directly into the trash bin and I can likely expect a knock on my door in the near future. What the hell...

Chairman Michael K. Powell: [e-mail]
Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: [e-mail]
Commissioner Michael J. Copps: [e-mail]
Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: [e-mail]
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: [e-mail]

[LosinIt]

3. Story has made the "Big Time" CNN Homepage Headlines

You know, Jim Lehrer shows pictures of the fallen, OK of the DEAD, every night at the conclusion of his broadcase. But it must still be hanging on to the 'Public' part of PBS by the skin of its teeth.