Sinclair Broadcast Group

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Right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, a company that owns local TV stations across the country, is ordering its local stations to preempt normal broadcasting a couple days before the election to air an anti-Kerry film made by a former 'reporter' for the Washington Times.

Basically it's a 90 minute Swift-Boat ad which Sinclair is ordering stations seen in a quarter of the nation's households to show a week before the election.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_03.php#003630

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1. Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem NC Take Action

Triad area DUers may contact the local Sinclair affiliate WXLV here:

http://www.abc45.com/greensboro_nc/station/contact_departments.shtml (Be sure to specify a department on the form, I suggest "programming.")

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2. John Kerry's FCC will have to "deal with them" if you know what....

I mean.

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3. Just emailed Sinclair scoundrels.

They're not in my market - emailed the Sacramento station Programming Dept. promising to boycott all their sponsors and to spread the word far and wide. Called them on pre-empting scheduled programs under the guise of calling this pos "news" -etc. Ended by wishing the recipient good luck with his/her future career pursuits.