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  •  Stop Sinclair  - http://www.stopsinclair.org/
     Aims to halt the Sinclair Broadcast Group from forcing all its affiliates to preempt regular network broadcasts to air an anti-Kerry documentary just before the 2004 election.
  •  The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade  - http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=1910
     Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as "news" a week before the November 2004 election.
  •  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief  - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Kerry%20Film%20Reporter
     The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
  •  The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign  - http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=1912
     Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.
  •  Salon - Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair  - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/22/sinclair/
     States a pair of biased partisan's past behavior confirms their critics' worst suspicions - that Sinclair executives manipulated the company's broadcasting for their own gain, contrary to standard corporate practice, and that an anti-John Kerry film they aired is a wildly misleading hit piece.
  •  Los Angeles Times - Group Challenges Sinclair Licenses  - http://www.latimes.com/news/yahoo/la-na-sinclair2nov02,1,1147575.story
     A Massachusetts-based nonprofit group files a petition with the Federal Communications Commission challenging the license renewal applications for television stations owned by SBG.