Sinclair Says Will Not Air Kerry Show in Entirety

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Sinclair Says Will Not Air Kerry Show in Entirety

Oct 19, 4:17 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., under widening scrutiny over plans to air a documentary about Sen. John Kerry's wartime activities 30 years ago, said on Tuesday it would not show the program in its entirety.

"Contrary to numerous inaccurate political and press accounts, the Sinclair stations will not be airing the documentary 'Stolen Honor' in its entirety," the Baltimore-based company said in a statement.

Sinclair said it would air a special news program on Friday called "A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media" that would discuss the allegations surrounding Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities.

[Hobarticus]

1. What's the dif? Like it'll be objective?

Same cat, different stripe, to me.

[robbedvoter]

3. Slime & whine

[kysrsoze]

18. They don't want to lose revenue - just show the most inflammatory parts

[rockymountaindem]

2. I humbly suggest we continue to boycott them anyway.

[mom cat]

14. Does George Soros want to buy 62 TV stations..cheap?

[mountainvue]

16. Heehee. Wouldn't that

be fun?

[LTR]

4. So they're just going to cherrypick it and only show the damning stuff?

Okay, whatever!

[Endangered Specie]

5. What, they going to shave off 3 seconds?

or the commericial?

[papau]

17. Show 12 min of 42 min film - with talking heads between excerpts

:-)

[leQ]

6. link here

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20041019/2004-10-19T225324Z_01_N19463631_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CAMPAIGN-SINCLAIR-KERRY-DC.html

on edit: added link

[Bluzmann57]

7. Too little, too late

Screw 'em anyway. They need to NOT SHOW ANY OF THE FILM. And an apology may be in order by now.

[sonicx]

8. sinclair is not kidding anyone

take the whole program off.

[cali]

9. Right.

They're going to judiciously edit the film to make it even more unfair, and spend the rest of the time taking apart F-911 and the supposed liberal media. Great change.

[UCLA Dem]

10. oh please! stupid lying sacks of scum.

[RetroLounge]

11. Obviously the boycott is working

Don't stop now. Hit them in their pocketbooks. Make the stock plummet.

Money is all that matters to them...

RL

[Terran]

13. Right. This is backing down.

They're starting to realize they messed up.

[dolstein]

12. Yeah, they'll just air the worst bits

NT

[drfemoe]

15. And that proves

exactly WHAT? That they can editorialize?
Think that's already been proven.

[BUSHOUT]

19. The lying b@stards can rename it if they want. The battle continues...n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. Ahh. Just the naughty bits, eh?

They're determined to do SOMETHING, even if it bankrupts them. And it will.

[dweller]

21. nice try

f*cking sissies.

give it what you got or not at all.


You are going to LOSE bigtime $$$ if you do, so stand up and face the music.

:mad:
dp

[GinaMaria]

22. Perfect. Now the clips will be out of context

/sarcasm. Keep the boycott going.

Will it still be commercial free?

[Raster]

23. Feeble fucking attempt to appear unbiased and fair. Feeble fucking...

...attempt to stop the stock price from continuing it's dive. Feeble fucking attempt to pretend they're good custodians of the PEOPLE'S airwaves.

Feeble Fucking Attempt!

[Shoeempress]

24. Time to apply even more pressure to advertisers. If you have called and

written, do it again. If you haven't done either, start now. Here's the link to the advertisers.

http://www.boycottsbg.com/advertisers/

[flamingyouth]

25. Gee, how wonderful - are they going to retitle it?

Because, perhaps they haven't noticed, but "Stolen Honor" is a bit - oh, what's the word? - asinine! :grr:

[Seabiscuit]

26. Not nearly good enough, Sinclair!

They're comin' to get you, hah hah, hah hah....

[Moderator]

27. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x916825