http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/elections/orl-asecs... TV station defends airing of anti-Kerry infomercial
By Hal Boedeker
Sentinel Television Critic
November 1, 2004
More than 100 callers blasted WKMG-Channel 6 on Sunday for airing an infomercial of Stolen Honor, a documentary that
condemns Sen. John Kerry, two days before the presidential election.WKMG General Manager Henry Maldonado defended the decision to sell the time. He said he handled the transaction Friday by phone and said he couldn't identify the purchasing group because he was out of town on business.
"It was a paid program," Maldonado said.
"It was no different from selling knives. The time periods are set up for infomercials."
The Sinclair Broadcast Group caused a national furor in October when it announced plans to show the film that criticizes Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism in the 1970s. Former prisoners of war lambaste Kerry's 1971 testimony to Congress about the war.
A half-hour version of Stolen Honor aired in Orlando at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.
Democratic consultant Dick Batchelor said he found it curious that WKMG had the time to sell so close to the election. "They're in business to make money, but it's a patently anti-Kerry piece of propaganda," he said.more...
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