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Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire
worm eater writes "The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, in its latest politically charged move, has announced that it will air a 90-minute anti-Kerry documentary a week before the election. The video, 'Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,' was funded by a group of Pennsylvania POWs that has merged with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Sinclair, which is the largest TV broadcasting group in the nation, has 62 affiliates, many in swing states. It made news in April by refusing to let any of its affiliates air an edition of Nightline in which Ted Koppel read the names of US soldiers who had died in Iraq, saying the broadcast was politically motivated. Predictably, liberal blogs are fighting back."
I'm highly skeptical Powell will give the Democrats a fair hearing since his job and the job of his dad are riding on the outcome of the election Sinclair is trying to swing.
I am as well. The thing is that Hundt actually seemed to take the whole fairness thing seriously. I don't know if you recall, but when Ross Perot was running the major networks refused to air his commercials until the FCC under Hundt stepped in. He was a Clinton appointee, but he acted in the interest of fairness and democracy there, and I respect him for that.