Variety: Copps tickets Sinclair

[tuvor]

John Dempsey, STAFF

NEW YORK -- FCC (news - web sites) commissioner Michael J. Coppsattacked Sinclair Broadcasting on Tuesday for its plan to force its 62 TV stations to carry a primetime documentary critical of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) during the week before Election Day, calling the decision "an abuse of the public trust."

"And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok," Copps said in a statement, "when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative."

The docu, "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," criticizes the young Kerry's political activities immediately after his service as a Swift Boat captain during the Vietnam War, when he appeared on television and before congressional committees to testify that some American soldiers committed atrocities in Vietnam.

Sinclair officials didn't return phone calls seeking comment, but the company's VP Mark Hyman has said the docu charges the North Vietnamese used Kerry's antiwar statements as an excuse to torture American prisoners of war.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20041012/va_tv_ne/copps_tickets_sinclair_2

[nofurylike]

1. this is huge! thank you for this info, tuvor!!

with all the work we've all been doing about Sinclair, i am very surprised that people aren't commenting on this. might not realize what this post is?

maybe put FCC in parentheses after Copps name?


thank you, again!



peace!

[Voltaire99]

2. "...an excuse to torture American prisoners of war"

Three million dead, you see, was mildly upsetting.

But John Kerry and a few hippies, well, after that all bets were off!

[nofurylike]

3. yes yesyesyes crucial point!

every time i read that crap from...
yeccch!

immediately slams my mind: uh, like they needed Kerry to tell THEM?!?


kills me kills me



peace

[symbolman]

4. I got something for them right here

Here's my latest flash work "Our Media is Broken" - a good resource for going after Sinclair Broadcast Group.

All the links are clickable and will help with this cause, link this if you would please or pass it around, the more people that get it the more damage we can do to those bastards!

Tell everyone to turn up those speakers and we'll get the word out with MEDIA :)

http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20041013042650709

[nofurylike]

5. symbolman! i am certain you do! thanks ah!

i go see



peace!

[nofurylike]

6. i just posted that on the following thread, the sinclair action thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1036078&mesg_id=1048491


low modem...
:)