Molly Ivins: Creeping fascism at Sinclair

[Dudley_DUright]

Now is the time for all good men -- and women -- to race to the aid of their country. Liberals and libertarians unite! The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, with their biased "documentary" on John Kerry, has moved this election into the realm of creeping fascism, state propaganda, Big Brother and brainwashing. What me, hyperbole?

This is SO simple -- how would you conservatives feel if NBC, CBS or ABC decided to pre-empt primetime programming a week before the election to air Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"? And then announced, "But we've offered President Bush a chance to reply"?

Sinclair has also offered President George W. Bush the inestimable service of diverting attention from his record and is using OUR publicly owned airwaves to do it.

For Sinclair's lobbyist and on-air editorialist Mark Hyman to claim this long attack ad is "news" is ludicrous -- almost as strained as his claim, somewhere between infelicitous and crackers, that those who disagree are like "Holocaust deniers."

Sinclair Group is the perfect example of what's wrong with the concentration of ownership in media: Just a few companies now own almost all the major information outlets. Sinclair is the largest owner of local TV stations in the nation. It controls 62 stations in 39 markets and reaches at least 25 percent of Americans every day, all day.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17871

[Hog lover]

1. Go Molly!

She really has a talent for illustrating how bad Sinclair's actions are with the question about F911.

[freesqueeze]

2. Fascism in Patriot's Clothing

Sounds so topical.

Remember, Rove and the swift boat liars thought that this '71 testimony stuff was so weak that they had to fabricate the Kerry is a coward story to put out there first.

I'm not too worried.

Bush could win but it won't be because of this TV program.