Broadcasting Group Bans Koppel's Tribute To Dead Troops

[AmyStrange]

Broadcasting Group Bans Koppel's Tribute To Dead Troops

POSTED: 8:19 a.m. EDT April 30, 2004

FROM: http://www.kirotv.com/news/3253783/detail.html
NEW YORK -- "Nightline" is calling Friday's program a simple tribute. Others call it anti-war propaganda. And Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is known for its conservative views, is pre-empting it.

On Friday's "Nightline," Ted Koppel will read the names of more than 500 U.S. servicemen and women killed in Iraq. Calling it anti-war propaganda, conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group refuses to air it.
During the ABC News broadcast (11:35 p.m. EDT), anchorman Ted Koppel will read aloud the name of a U.S. service man or woman killed in the Iraq war, as a corresponding photo appears on the screen along with that person's name, military branch, rank and age.

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"These people have paid the ultimate price in our name," said "Nightline" executive producer Leroy Sievers, "and it's important to remember them, whether you think the price is worth it or not.

"It may not be great television. But it's the right thing to do, and that's why we're doing it."

Sounds simple enough. But with the war much in dispute during a highly charged election year, nothing, it seems, is accepted at face value. So some observers think there's more here than meets the eye.

Sinclair, a Hunt Valley, Md.-based media company whose holdings include 62 TV stations, announced Thursday it would pre-empt "Nightline" on its eight ABC affiliates, including stations in Columbus, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo., and Tallahassee, Fla. The company said Friday's program "appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."

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