{"id":1405,"date":"2004-10-18T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T22:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/stop-sinclair-broadcast-group\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T22:57:32","slug":"stop-sinclair-broadcast-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/stop-sinclair-broadcast-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Sinclair Broadcast Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"STOP SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsinclair.org\/index.php\">STOP SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>join the 113387 people who have signed so far<\/p>\n<p>What is Sinclair Broadcast Group?<br \/>\nSinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., is one of the largest television broadcasters in the country. By its own count, Sinclair owns, operates, or services 62 local television stations in 39 markets \u2013 reaching 24% of television households in the United States.<br \/>\nSource: Sinclair Broadcast Group, www.sbgi.net<\/p>\n<p>What is Stolen Honor?<br \/>\nAccording to its creators, Stolen Honor is a &#8220;documentary&#8221; claiming to &#8220;expos[e] John Kerry&#8217;s record of betrayal.&#8221; The film is funded by a group of conservative activists.<br \/>\nSources: www.stolenhonor.com<br \/>\nLos Angeles Times, 10\/9\/04, &#8220;Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What is Sinclair Broadcast Group planning to do?<br \/>\nSinclair has told its stations to air Stolen Honor. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Sinclair is forcing its stations to preempt regular prime-time programming from the networks to show the film.<br \/>\nSource: Los Angeles Times, 10\/9\/04, &#8220;Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t we heard this from Sinclair before?<br \/>\nIn April 2004, Sinclair ordered seven of its stations not to air Ted Koppel&#8217;s Nightline broadcast featuring a roll call of the 700 U.S. troops who had died in Iraq. Republican Sen. John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was among the many who criticized Sinclair\u2019s action.<br \/>\nSource: Los Angeles Times, 10\/9\/04, &#8220;Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is Sinclair trying to affect the outcome of the Presidential election?<br \/>\nIn the 2004 political cycle, executives from Sinclair have given nearly $67,784 in political contributions, 97% to Republicans. We just report, you decide.<br \/>\nSource: The Center for Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org<\/p>\n<p>Do we support free speech?<br \/>\nAbsolutely. And free speech means expressing our outrage when a major corporation with a history of right-wing bias tries to change the outcome of an election by airing a slanted, inaccurate documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOP SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP join the 113387 people who have signed so far What is Sinclair Broadcast Group? Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., is one of the largest television broadcasters in the country. By its own count, Sinclair owns, operates, or services 62 local television stations in 39 markets \u2013 reaching 24% of television households in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/stop-sinclair-broadcast-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}