Posted on 10/12/2004 10:29:52 AM PDT by LeftCoastNeoCon
Edited on 10/12/2004 11:02:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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."
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I don't think the FCC can do a thing. Sundance and IFC are running openly anitBush stuff all the time.
This is coming from the FCC Commissioner? Isn't he kinda in charge of the FCC? I don't get this at all.
Wrong. They are only reporting the facts. It is what happened. Part of being a candidate for president of the United States is that the people get to know about you and your past before they decide. The MSM has ignored his past for far too long. Either what he did was not wrong, and thus he has nothing to worry about, or he has some explaining to do. The dims did not have to nominate this guy, and he did not have to try and hide his past through the whole campaign. He will be facing the consequences of his own actions.
An Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, discovers he can use electricity to send an intelligible signal wirelessly across great distances. Entrepreneurs begin working on commercial applications of the newly discovered technology. And the government calls them in, telling them "We own those waves in the air ... what do you call them .. uhh radio waves? Right. We own those things. They're ours, all right. We always have owned them. You can only use them if we give you permission to use OUR waves, whatever they are."
What exactly does 'eneumerated powers' mean?
Payback's a b!tch, baby!
Me neither
But I just found a nice home for that big pot of cash I got selling my FOX stock......thanks dims
OMG, they are all in this together! Does he care about the obvious flooding of the airwaves with totally biased so called news by the networks? Heck no! Jerk.
Didn't know FCC was campaigning for Kerry. WOW! I hope this makes it into the MSM.
I'm dying with anticipation to see what the surprise is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, newbie but ABC and CBS have been running their lib commercials on the air free for years.
Right out of the Clinton play book. They are just too stupid to realize that they were supposed to make that threat privately.
You've seen it?
Anti-Kerry Film Causes Stir
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
By J. Jennings Moss
"NEW YORK — Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign blasted a decision by the Sinclair Broadcast Group (search) to air a documentary on Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism, but a Sinclair official vowed to move forward Tuesday.
The flap is over a one-hour program — "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal (search)" — featuring former prisoners of war accusing Kerry, a decorated veteran who took up the anti-war cause upon returning from Vietnam, of prolonging the war and worsening their plight.
"If anybody has earned the right to speak about their experiences in Vietnam, it's these men," Sinclair Vice President Mark Hyman (search) told FOX News. "They suffered unspeakable horrors. They earned the right to be heard."
The program likely will be broadcast between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24, depending on the city. According to Sinclair's Web site, the company has some connection to 62 stations from all the broadcast networks — FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN and the WB — in 39 markets and reaches 24 percent of U.S. television households."
For full story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135228,00.html
Stick to your guns, Mr. Hyman!!!
I've watched every available second of it from the website...which I think is pretty much all of it.
You?
I agree that the FCC should ban Sinclair from airing anything that may be ANTI-KERRY. . .
just as soon as they shut down NBC, ABC, & especially CBS for being anti-Bush!
Just heard the producer will be on Hannity & Colmes, coming in minutes.
I've seen lots of the various interviews. I thought what I saw was too longwinded. Seemed to lose impact. But no, I haven't seen what has been put together as final cut.
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