Can CBS, ABC and WB exert pressure on their Sinclair stations?

[genius]

If so, we should be hounding them to do so. Perhaps they can demand their stations air F9/11 as a rebuttal. Most of the Sinclair stations are part of these and Fox's networks.

[Supersedeas]

1. now we are learning what consolidation really means...Mike Powell smiles

[dogtag]

2. Any of the networks can pull their signal from Sinclair

if they have the balls to do it. We know for a fact that when Sinclair didn't air 60 Minutes II, the TANG story, CBS didn't do anything, at least nothing that we know of.

[pinkpops]

3. It they WANTED to -

they could run something at the same time. Sinclair has mixed network affiliations in different markets. Born on the 4th of July would be a good one to run - Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone, telling it like it really was.

[genius]

4. Let's pressure them to do this

It's this Saturday.

[Ladybast]

5. Yes they can--by broadcasting F911

Michael Moore has offered F9/11 to Sinclair for free. If he offered it instead to one of the main networks, they could broadcast it with a public statement to the effect that

"We are concerned that, when one network chooses to air partisan material without equal time for the other side, that network harms the ability of the public to make a truly informed choice in this crucial presidential election.

"In the interests, therefore, of public information and a fair election, NBC (or ABC or CBS) has decided to give John's Kerry's campaign broadcast time equal, both in quantity and quality, to that which Sinclair has bestowed on the Bush campaign. Our network will be preempting regular programs during prime time on several evenings during the last week of the election to show Michael Moore's popular film Fahrenheit 9/11, which examines the actions taken by Pres. Bush leading to the War in Iraq, as well as the consequences of those actions.

"We wish not to engage in partisan politicking but to prevent it. Had it been the Democratic campaign which one network had chosen to favor in its broadcasts, we would be equally determined to do our part to balance the slanted coverage by compensatory airtime for the Republican campaign. It is our position that media networks worthy of the name seek to inform objectively, and seek to uphold the principles of fair elections rather than working to undermine them."

JMHO . . . .

[newyawker99]

6. Hi Ladybast!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: