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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Copps should be fired for that clearly partisan statement -- it is abuse of office.
If Copps were consistent and fair he'd have revoked CBS's broadcast license.
How is it and "anti-Kerry show" just to have Vietnam Vets tell their stories?
Bush, after he wins reelection, should FIRE this bureaucratic pinhead WITHOUT his pension.
I hate government bureaucrats.
Did Copps have anything to say about Robert Redford turning over his Sundance Channel to five hours of the anti-Bush hatefest, "Concert for Change" (Springsteen, James Taylor et al), last night?
I think Copps is the guy Daschle wrangled onto the Commission.
Oh, shut up...Bush had to put Dems on the Commission by law.
What facts have been played with, Troll?
And what do they call 60 Minutes? First, they air the Bush-bash-book du jour ( Joe Wilson, Paul O'Neill, Bob Woodward, et al ). Then they publish anti-Bush ANG service story based on fraudulent documents. Where was this FCC member then?
I'm pretty sure he was "high-fiving" his TV set.
Copps is the one who orchestrated the move-on.org campaign against the media ownership rules last spring, he's JUST a DUmbocrat partisan who's given Michael J. Powell nothing but fits for years.
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