Mark Hyman, an executive of Sinclair Broadcasting[FIND INFORMATION]

[AnIndependentTexan]

Check for connections to Swift Boat for Truth or any other attacks against Kerry. Also find background information that could link him to Karl Rove!

[jn2375]

1. We need to set up protests out side each sponsors headquarters

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2. Bio

Mark Hyman is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair, the nation’s largest operator of television stations. Sinclair’s television operations are diverse in programming with stations affiliated with the top six networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN and WB). Sinclair currently owns, operates, programs, or provides sales services to 63 television stations, reaching one in four U.S. television households. Sinclair’s corporate headquarters are based in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

In his current position, he is the head of Corporate Relations which includes developing strategic policy, managing Federal, state and local legislative and regulatory relations, public and media affairs, and community outreach and charitable activities. Sinclair’s total media operations are located in 24 states.

http://www.newscentral.tv/station/bios/mhyman.shtml

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3. He is the slime ball that gives the "commentaries".

[liveoaktx]

4. Write letters to the FCC about this-Sinclair can get their licence to

broadcast revoked.

[AnIndependentTexan]

5. after-action report was obtained from the Navy archives by syndicated

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22859-2004Sep15?language=printer

"Members of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth say the report vindicates their claim that Kerry didn't show the kind of valor that merits a Silver Star. The after-action report was obtained from the Navy archives by syndicated TV commentator Mark Hyman of 'The Point.' A Navy official confirmed its authenticity."

[sundancekid]

6. here is one WaPo story about his "connection" with swifties --he obtained

the after action report ...
WaPo story of September 15, 2004 (see link below)

~snip~
Thought the Swifties were fading away? Guess again:

"A newly surfaced document from John Kerry's Navy record says he shot a lone, wounded enemy who was running away in the incident that led to his Silver Star, his highest military decoration," says the New York Post.

"Members of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth say the report vindicates their claim that Kerry didn't show the kind of valor that merits a Silver Star. The after-action report was obtained from the Navy archives by syndicated TV commentator Mark Hyman of 'The Point.' A Navy official confirmed its authenticity."

Kerry campaign officials said they would not respond to the story until they saw the documents.
~snip~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22859-2004Sep15?language=printer

[AnIndependentTexan]

7. "unpatriotic politicians who hate our military."

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006291.html

SINCLAIR PRODUCES CENTRALIZED RIGHT-WING CONTENT FOR 'LOCAL STATIONS': In a controversial business practice, Sinclair Broadcasting has fired much of the staff for the local affiliates it owns, instead producing content for its local stations from a central facility outside Baltimore which it then airs on "local" news broadcasts. The centralized content features nightly commentary by Sinclair corporate communications chief Mark Hyman. Hyman regularly refers to the French as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," the so-called liberal media as the "hate-America crowd," and progressives as "the lonely left" On one recent commentary, Hyman called members of Congress who voted against a recent resolution affirming the righteousness of the Iraq war "unpatriotic politicians who hate our military." You can see all of Hyman's commentaries this month HERE. (Read more from American Progress about the problems of media consolidation.)

[AnIndependentTexan]

8. new and uncharted ethical lows

http://thecounterpoint.blogspot.com/

It takes a lot to shock us at “The Counterpoint.” There’s very little that Mark Hyman can come up with that seems outlandish or beyond the pale when compared to his typical outing. So it’s always quite the event when he manages to take his rhetorical bathysphere to new and uncharted ethical lows.

[cal04]

9. some sites with Sinclair mentioned

24% of the US tv market will not hear Ted Kopel read off the names of American war dead. Sinclair Broadcasting (which gave Bush $130,000) is censoring it because it paints the war in an unfavorable light.
The Washington-based liberal think tank the Center for American Progress cited campaign contribution reports showing Sinclair executives have donated more than $130,000 to President Bush and his political allies since 2000.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/109170.php

TV/Radio Stations:
Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=C2100

click the link to Sinclair's Cynical Agenda

Sinclair's Cynical Agenda
Tonight, ABC's "Nightline" will pay tribute to U.S. troops killed in Iraq by airing a 40 minute special – the names of the fallen will be read by anchor Ted Koppel as their photographs appear on screen. But Sinclair Broadcast Group – the country's largest owner of TV stations – will not allow its ABC affiliates to air the show. In a statement, Sinclair claims the special "appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq." While Sinclair claims it is pre-empting Nightline because it is an attempt to "influence public opinion," the record shows that Sinclair media has repeatedly leveraged its control over the airwaves to manipulate public opinion in favor of President Bush's right-wing agenda.

SINCLAIR EXECUTIVES MAJOR BUSH CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS: Sinclair executives have contributed more than $16,500 to President Bush since 2000. This year, Sinclair CEO David Smith gave President Bush the maximum $2000 contribution. Before soft money contributions became illegal, Sinclair Broadcasting gave more than $130,000 to the president's political allies but no money to his opponents.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=63020

[AnIndependentTexan]

10. over $65,000 so far in 2004, 98% of it going to the GOP

http://liberalmediaconspiracy.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_liberalmediaconspiracy_archive.html

What about Mark Hyman, the host of "The Point", a Rush-wing editorial presentation regularly shown on all Sinclair stations? I understand that Sinclair has made political donations of over $65,000 so far in 2004, 98% of it going to the GOP. Hyman is VP of Corporate Communications.

[Kadie]

11. Swifties and Mark Hyman - link

A Trillion-Dollar Story

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 15, 2004; 3:03 PM

snip...
Thought the Swifties were fading away? Guess again:

"A newly surfaced document from John Kerry's Navy record says he shot a lone, wounded enemy who was running away in the incident that led to his Silver Star, his highest military decoration," says the New York Post.

"Members of the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth say the report vindicates their claim that Kerry didn't show the kind of valor that merits a Silver Star. The after-action report was obtained from the Navy archives by syndicated TV commentator Mark Hyman of 'The Point.' A Navy official confirmed its authenticity."

Kerry campaign officials said they would not respond to the story until they saw the documents.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22859-2004Sep15?language=printer

[doni_georgia]

12. Contact the FCC and the FEC and the Kerry campaign & DNC

http://www.fcc.gov/
http://www.fec.gov/


A just don't see how a political partisan using the nation's airways to lie about a presidential candidate in order to sway and election can possibly be legal.

[AnIndependentTexan]

13. offering a more balanced and less liberal-leaning news report.

http://www.politicaljuice.com/2004/week18/

And just like Fox News, Sinclair's News Central is getting some heat from some establishment media outlets for offering a more balanced and less liberal-leaning news report.

Sinclair relishes the criticism.

"Basically, in the red states," says Sinclair's Vice President for Corporate Affairs Mark Hyman in a NewsMax interview, referring to the markets SBG serves -- mostly in "red" states George Bush won in the 2000 election.

[mitchum]

14. HYman is also an embedded CIA spook (with a specialty in propaganda)...

his bio is very telling

[AnIndependentTexan]

15. Mark Hyman has followed RNC talking points.

http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/GOP/_archi...9/3/134869.html

by Iowa's Ted Remington

We knew “The Point” was predictable, but even we’re surprised at how closely Mark Hyman has followed RNC talking points.

A few days ago, we wondered aloud how Hyman would address the disconnect between the Republican platform and the headline speakers at the convention in New York. Perhaps, we mused, Hyman would try to characterize it as somehow showing the “big tent” that is the Republican Party.

And right on cue, Hyman did just that. Kicking off a recent editorial with the statement that by “any measure” Bush is the most conservative president in 40 years and Kerry is the most liberal Democratic nominee in recent memory