Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair
To critics, it is no surprise that a conservative broadcaster who used his media empire to pay a personal penalty and a journalist who aired a baseless "exposé" on veterans are now a team intent on smearing John Kerry. [Salon]
Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items
Analysis of programs in the two weeks following the 2004 presidential election suggests that this broadcast group regularly demeans progressives, in the guise of revealing neglected news. [Media Matters]
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FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time
In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.
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The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade
Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election.
The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign
Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.
Truthout - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief
The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
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