LAT: Protest Launched Against Sinclair (filling airwaves with Rep. bias)

[DeepModem Mom]

Protest Launched Against Sinclair
Political groups say the TV broadcaster is filling the nation's airwaves with Republican bias.

By Elizabeth Jensen, Times Staff Writer


NEW YORK — A coalition of liberal political groups is launching a nationwide protest against Sinclair Broadcast Group, charging that the 62-station TV broadcaster, which was also the target of intense criticism during the presidential campaign, is misusing public airwaves with partisan news programming.

The groups, led by Media Matters for America, today will announce a campaign to pressure Sinclair's advertisers with letters. The groups, however, are stopping short of demanding an advertiser boycott.

The campaign is one of the first broad attempts to reenergize liberal political activists in the wake of the Democrats' electoral defeat in November. Others involved include MoveOn.org, Free Press, Campaign for America's Future, Working Assets, Alternet, MediaChannel, and filmmaker Robert Greenwald, who made "Outfoxed," a film released in the summer that alleged Republican bias at Fox News Channel.

The anti-Sinclair campaign will be run through a new website, SinclairAction.com.

The main focus of the protest is the nightly "The Point" commentary by Mark Hyman, who is Sinclair's spokesman and also oversees the company's Washington lobbying....


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-sinclair14dec14,0,1765019.story?coll=la-home-politics

[KT2000]

1. Hooray for Media Matters

thay are doing a great job. This is a gutsy organization.

[Khephra]

2. David Brock is a prime example of why we should be encouraging

to those on the Right who start to express dismay instead of snobbing them and taking the "you made your bed, so lie in it" route like so many of us here do. Who knows? The next Republican that you hear grumbling about Bush under his breath may turn into the next hardcore Liberal activist with a little help from us.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. You're a good soul, Khephra, and, difficult as it is to admit --

right.