Sinclair to air anti-Kerry special (Stolen Honor)

Washington Times ^ | Oct. 9, 2004 | UPI

[FairOpinion]

New York, NY, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A conservative U.S. broadcaster whose outlets reach one-quarter of the nation's TV viewers is airing a film that attacks John Kerry just before the election.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its 62 stations to preempt regular programming during primetime to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POWs accusing Kerry -- a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who later protested the war -- of worsening their ordeal by prolonging the conflict.

The one-hour special, which will be aired between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24 depending on the city, will be followed by a panel discussion to which Kerry will be invited, potentially satisfying fairness regulations, the Times reported.

[Salvation]

**conservative U.S. broadcaster -- Sinclair**

Wish we had an email to say thank you to them.

[Piranha]

In ordinary times I'd agree with you. Today, there is way too much bias in the mainstream media to even make a pretence of objectivity. When we have CBS collaborating with the Kerry campaign and ABC making a policy decision to cover Bush's inconsistencies but not Kerry's, then in effect we have Moore's bias whether or not his movie is on tv.

[FairOpinion]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

You'd better understand if you realized that
Viet Nam Vets has been smeared for 35 + years.

Now it's payback time.

[VOA]

Thanks for posting.
The Los Angeles Times has a Page One article today about how G-wd-Awful it is that
Sinclair is broadcasting the truth during an election campaign.

[jackbill]

So what are you suggesting? That Moore's crap stays out there but we shouldn't counteract it with the truth?

Are you French?

[eddie willers]

Today, there is way too much bias in the mainstream media to even make a pretence of objectivity.

It is my understanding that this "Holy Grail" of "Objective" journalism is a very recent phenomenon.

Throughout history, the press...the town criers etc., were very upfront about where their interest lay and what agenda they were trying to foster.

With any luck, we'll get back to this traditional "truth in advertising".....

Less "sneaky" that way.....(i.e. Walter "bet you didn't know I was a commie" Cronkite)

[Stentor]

How would you feel if a competitor decided to do the same thing with Fahrenheit 9/11?

You must be a life long Republican. I think this is great but I have some Democrat viciousness in my genes. The rats dumped the DUI thing without compassion. I wish we had a video of Kerry in full face makeup doing a Hermann Goering dressing gown runway show.

[VOA]

bump for the truth about the Presidential candidate that works in a style reminiscent of
Jinghis Khan.

[Smartass]

Off to Vietnam...on an Asian tour
There is a museum...you must see for sure
There's a place of honor...he's a traitor, we say
North Vietnam dreamin'...a Winter Soldier day

Kerry's picture's there...he helped them in the war
And along with Hanoi Jane...he's someone we abhor
They have him in an honored place...he's traitor scum, we say
North Vietnam dreamin'...a Winter Soldier day

He turned on brave men...stabbed them in the back
Torturers he helped...they gave him a plaque
There's a place of honor...traitor scum, we say
North Vietnam dreamin'...a Winter Soldier day
A Winter Soldier day...a Winter Soldier day

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[jackbill]

What makes me uneasy is the tit-for-tat that is going on. I think there comes a time when you take the moral high road, rest on your message, and let that speak for itself. This applies to both sides.

Do you have any - ANY - influence on the "other side"? Enough to get them to quit with their lies? I suggest that you use it and give up your naive "can't we all just get along" crap. It's war, in case you haven't noticed. It's the DNC, the RAT 527's, Moore, the MSM against us.

And then, get a life.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks. I found the LAT article.

Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sinclair9oct09,1,3230034.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

NEW YORK — The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.

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Gee, I don't know, how does anyone dare to speak out against Kerry's "activism against the Vietnam War".

(major sarcasm)

[Sister_T]

"It's beyond yellow journalism," said Kerry spokesman David Wade. "It's a smear bankrolled by Republican money, and I don't think Americans will stand for it."

What a CRYBABY! Where was this concern for "yellow journalism" when C^BS used phony memos to smear Bush? Instead of whining, why don't they accept Sinclair's offer to offer the other side, unless there is NO other side!

[VOA]

Gee, I don't know, how does anyone dare to speak out against Kerry's
"activism against the Vietnam War".

(Kerry bombast-voice emulator):
"How...dare...you...question the denigration of 'diversity of opinion'
by my operatives in the media? How crushingly intolerant of you!"

(end my round of sarcasm)

[Lady Jag]

[Piranha]

Journalism itself started in the 1600s in Amsterdam (connected with financial-related information for traders).

It became important in the US around the time of the American Revolution. At that time, newspapers had names like the "Mail Advertiser". They had mostly advertisements on the front page, and articles inside, including letters from correspondents far away, reporting on events elsewhere in the US or in Europe. You can examine these newspapers at the New-York Historical Society if you have a student ID (at least you could in the early 1980s).

Around the turn of the 20th Century, so-called "yellow journalism" reached its extreme with the Hearst newspapers lobbying for the Spanish-American war. Shortly after that, the ideal of objectivity became the goal. There were some exceptions, like the Chicago Tribune, which advocated the eccentric views of Col. McCormick, but by and large objectivity seemed to work.

In the 1960s and 1970s, newspaper and media ownership consolidated, and the biases of one group became much more important than they had been previously, when no one news agency controlled more than its own market.

The internet, webloggers and FreeRepublic, where anyone can comment on any news story, have exposed the lack of objectivity in a new way. At present, about 100 years after objectivity became so important, and about 200 years after news media themselves became important, the ideal seems to be evaporating.

[evad]

It just feels like a cheap shot. Something that CBS would do.

Believe me, if CBS had something this DAMAGING and TRUE (rare for CBS), they would do it!

[Chieftain]

Whoo hoo! It makes my heart PROUD to see so many veterans STANDING UP TO KERRY AND NOT RELENTING!

[xm177e2]

A conservative U.S. broadcaster whose outlets reach one-quarter of the nation's TV viewers is airing a film that attacks John Kerry just before the election.

Not just 24% of the nation.

I see a lot of SWING STATES on their map.

Hot damn.

This is going to be good. And it's going to be big.