- 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.
- FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1987
In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.
- Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group - http://sinclairaction.com/
A centralized source for the boycott of SBG's advertisers, as well as related news and developments.
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