Starting anti-sinclair site - need help!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

I'm in one of the areas where these wise sages have decided that Nightline is unfit for our fragile little minds.

Quite frankly, I'm fucking sick of this station - whether it's pulling Bill Maher, organizing pro-war rallies at the state capitol, forcing affiliates to air the fringe right commentary of mark hyman (w/ no opposing view for balance), or horribly slanted coverage in general; this station is nothing more than a 24/7 ad for the GOP.

I'm sure there are a lot of us out there who feel this way.

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So here's what I need:

If you're in a Sinclair town not running Nightline, find out what airs in it place and make a note of the sponsors. I'm compiling them by city.

I'll also be listing contact info, background dirt on the companyand anything else we might need.

So if you have any info or suggestions, please pass it along- and I'll be sure to credit you with it

personally I think we should organize a mass boycott until they quit using once-reputable stations they've purchased to spread the extremist right message.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. I'm all for a Boycott. It's the only language that these MOFO's....

understand.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. exactly

we can write them until our fingers fall off, but unless we hurt them financially, they won't give a damn what we think

these people won't respond to mere complaints

[Pallas180]

3. Here's a message for David D Smith/Sinclair:

DAVID D. SMITH DEFILES THE US. CONSTITUTION. AND ALL DECENCY.

I DEMAND HE BE FIRED OR MADE TO RESIGN

AND BY THE WAY, DAVE, ARE ANY OF YOUR KIDS OVER IN IRAQ?


Here's the addresses: (And you can tell them youre going to boycott their station and call their sponsors...CALLING THEIR SPONSORS GETS TO EM

Corporate Headquarters
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
10706 Beaver Dam Road
Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030
410-568-1500 (Main Telephone)
410-568-1533 (Main Fax)

Investor Relations Contact
Lucy A. Rutishauser
VP Corporate Finance and
Corporate Treasurer
[e-mail]

Sales Questions
Darren Shapiro
VP Sales
410-568-1500

-or-

Jeff Sleete
VP Marketing
410-568-1500

Web Site Concerns
Mike O'Malley
Corporate Webmaster
[e-mail]

Link to Sinclair's "Code of Ethics" (LOL!):
http://www.sbgi.net/business/code.shtml

Link to station listings:
http://www.sbgi.net/business/television.shtml

OR JUST E MAIL IN ONE BUNCH HERE: (AND THANKS TO ANOTHER DU ER FOR THESE ADDRESSES)

Or just paste this into the To: textbox
(Outlook users should change the commas to semicolons)
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

[TeeYiYi]

4. How do you find out if you're in a 'Sinclair' town? . . .

I'm in Utah and as far as I can tell, Nightline is airing tonight.

TYY

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. if one of these is your ABC station

sinclair is mostly in the east:

WSYX-- Columbus, Ohio
KDNL-- St. Louis, Mo.
WXLV-- Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, N.C.
WEAR-- Mobile, AL & Pensacola, Fla.
WLOS-- Asheville, N.C.
WCHS-- Charleston & Huntington, W.V.
WGGB-- Springfield, Mass.
WTXL-- Tallahassee, Fla.

[TeeYiYi]

7. No thank gawd . . .

I seriously thought it might happen here (it is Utah after all). :eyes:

They Mormons refused to air Saturday Night Live here so I have to catch it on the WB.

Anyway, thanks for the list ann_coulter_is_a_man. Good luck with your site.

TYY

[drfemoe]

5. Analysis: The politics of 'The Fallen'

Free Press, a non-partisan group that promotes "informed public participation in crucial media policy debates," said it would investigate whether Sinclair has "fulfilled its obligations as a steward of the public airwaves," and would challenge Sinclair station license renewals. In a letter to Smith, Free Press President Robert McChesney said Sinclair's decision was a misuse of its power as a broadcaster.

"What we see in Sinclair broadcasting, with its cozy and corrupt relationship to the Bush administration, is TV journalism that is anything but independent of the government," said McChesney in a statement. "It is a commercial version of Pravda, and it is an outrageous and entirely unacceptable use of the public's airwaves."

McChesney cited data provided by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics showing that Sinclair executives had donated more than $16,000 in hard money and more than $120,000 in soft money to President Bush and other Republicans and conservatives since 2000. He also noted that the president supported changes in media-ownership rules in 2003 that "would have benefited Sinclair handsomely."

Wayne Smith, a spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation in Washington, said the "Nightline" program is "long overdue." Smith told United Press International the public needs to be informed about the number of U.S. war dead in Iraq, particularly in light of an incident Thursday, in which Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz in testimony to Congress put the number of combat deaths in Iraq at "approximately" 350.

"Here is the man, second in command at the Department of Defense, responsible for U.S. military forces, and he didn't know how many Americans had died," said Smith. "I submit this is a case of out of sight, out of mind. It is an insult for any veteran and family not to know the cost of this war."
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040430-035346-2742r

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. If I had it my way, Sinclair would be put out of business by a....

legal mandate and it's executives would be sent to Prison.

[SoCalDem]

9. You might want to "copy" this ..Executive/employee financial info online

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1504740

[drfemoe]

10. Republican Values

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
August 17, 1996, Saturday, SOONER EDITION

David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT.

The Baltimore Sun reported that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes.

On Thursday night, Sinclair issued a statement that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and ''The company will continue to operate under the direction of its current management.''

...more

Broadcasting official charged in sex stakeout
Sinclair president, woman arrested in company car

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_atrios_archive.html#108335351404593578

[G_j]

11. great idea!

some info here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1504101