Take a look and take the time for action against plans by the "conservative" (I can seldom figure out what it is these groups are attempting to conserve) Sinclair Broadcasting Group to pre-empt other programming to run an anti-Kerry faux documentary titled "Stolen Honor" one week before the election. (The link about enables you to join in a petition move against Sinclair, which will also be delivered to the FCC, along with providing phone numbers of the Sinclair-owned stations, state by state.)
This "Attackumentary" is being pushed by the Sinclair Group, who claim this qualified as "news content" and so doesn't classify as "electioneering communication", which would be federally prohibited within 60 days of the election. This is the same Sinclair Broadcasting Group that had its seven ABC affiliates keep Nightline off the air the night last April when a list of military casualties in Iraq was read, decrying it as an attempt to "influence public opinion."
More from the latter article:
The same Sinclair who gave $66,000 to the Republican Party in 2004.
The same Sinclair who required weather men to read a statement supporting President Bush's war on terror in 2001.
The same Sinclair who prevented a Madison, Wisconsin Fox affiliate from airing an advertisement by the Democratic National Committee last July. The same Sinclair who today forces local stations against their will to run a daily "commentary" segment by its corporate spokesman which calls the French "cheese eating surrender monkeys," and antiwar Congressman "unpatriotic politicians who hate our military." You get the picture. Can you imagine the response from the right if CBS pre-empted local programming in late October to show Fahrenheit 9/11?
If you wish to contact Sinclair CEO David Smith and express yourself directly, too, write to dsmith@sbgnet.com... though I suspect his email service is already overloaded by this point.
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