disgusting...

[acroyear]

Sinclair To Air Anti-Kerry Movie

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest owners of television stations in the country, has decided to preempt its regular network programming days before the Nov. 2 election to air an anti-John Kerry film, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. David Wade, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, told the newspaper: "It's beyond yellow journalism; it's a smear bankrolled by Republican money, and I don't think Americans will stand for it." Sinclair either owns or programs 62 television stations throughout the country. The same company ordered several of its stations last April not to air ABC's Nightline roll call of military dead in Iraq, calling it a political statement "disguised as news."

Comments

[thewhitedragon.livejournal.com]

Hey... if they get paid enough, television stations will air nearly anything. Sinclair's had a hard-on for Bush (pardon the pun) forever, so it's really coming as no surprise that they'll be airing it.

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

I thought there was some kind of rule about equal time for candidates...I don't know how it might apply in this case, if at all, but I remember that in the California Governor campaign, they had to stop broadcasting Arnold's movies, or give the opponent equal time (or was that an urban legend?)

[dawntreader]

yes, but i thought i also heard that the FCC said if they aired it, they would lose their license. or was that part a rumour?