Posted on 10/19/2004 1:29:00 PM PDT by areafiftyone
You must be one of the ill-informed.
It doesn't sound like they caved at all. They are running the program.
screw em.....GW doesnt need that to win.
Uh it doesn't look like they caved to me, just consolodated the schedule to make it national.
I'm glad it's on Friday instead of Thursday. That will give them a bigger audience than going up against "The Apprentice".
How did they cave? This looks consistent with what Sinclair has been saying. They're pressing forward, in spite of the full fledged assault on their network. Good for them!
DRAT - Still nothing in NYC yet!
BS. If you had been paying attention, you would know that Sinclair NEVER said that they were going to show Stolen Honor in its entirety. They've always maintained that they were planning a news program around Stolen Honor and that they had not decided on a script.
They still don't have a script. They didn't cave. You just weren't paying attention.
The market works...don't worry about it.
Something happened. Their stock just shot up!
They're newsing it up, and giving it the TV news magazine treatment. Good move on their part, and it will be even more effective if they cut in what Kerry says now, with what he said back then.
The experience of preparing to air this news special has been trying for many of those involved. The company and many of its executives have endured personal attacks of the vilest nature
"Stolen Honor" was only 45 minutes in the first place.
If the powerful documentary featuring highly decorated Vietnam POWs recounting how Lt.(jg) John Kerry's antiwar activity affected them was seen by the huge audience it deserves, Massachusetts's junior senator wouldn't get elected to a sanitation commission. In Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, 13 POWs, whose cries of pain, defiance, and despair went unheard during their hellish captivity, share their stories about the betrayal they felt when a fellow officer claimed American forces were guilty of widespread war crimes. Over 30 years ago, antiwar veterans (both faux and real) basked in the media spotlight; now proud veterans who endured their slanders, along with years of cruelty and abuse, are having their say. These indisputable heroes include two Medal of Honor winners, one of whom explains, "This is an effort that was long in coming, but would not have come about if not for the Democratic candidate 'reporting for duty.'" The 45-minute film opens with scenes of the dank cells at the Hanoi Hilton where the oppressive silence would only be broken by "cries of pain." One POW recalls the intense pain of the torture they suffered, explaining that "the rope was the worst." Following one such session, designed to win a confession of war crimes, another explains that for days afterward he was unable to move his body from his shoulders down. Ken Cordier, held for over six years, explains that they would be brutally manacled until they "screamed loud and long enough" to be released in exchange for information and confessions. Any injury was specifically targeted in order to break the captives more quickly. Tapes of Jane Fonda accusing them of being war criminals were played in their cells.
Then why are their previously scheduled programs called "The Point: Stolen Honor". Sounds like Stolen Honor to me.
Sounds like "The Point: Stolen Honor" to me.
The Posts's TV listings are still showing "Stolen Honor'" on Thursday at 8:00 p.m. on WNUV, another Baltimoe area station owned by Sinclair. Hope things haven't changed.
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